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sly grin and lower one eyelid, for it is gen- 

 erally understood among them that the great 

 donkey — the working class — will only con- 

 sent to carry everybody's burdens in addition 

 to its own, just so long as it is kept in child- 

 ish ignorance of everything it ought to know. 



And this is not all. Now that a great body 

 of workingmen are discarding these ancient 

 lies, and groping for those great truths that 

 contain the germs of their redemption, the of- 

 ficial savants, true servants of the ruling class, 

 twist and warp their own science in order to 

 make it contradict every working class idea. 



This attitude of the time serving intellect- 

 ual lackeys of the professorial chairs has 

 brought with it another blighting curse — it 

 has made a considerable number of working 

 men suspicious of modern science itself. It is 

 an old-time tragedy, this breaking with one's 

 best friend because of the groundless calumn- 

 ies of an interested enemy. 



This terribly mistaken antagonism to sci- 

 ence has unfortunately found its way, in some 

 measure, into the Socialist movement, though 

 happily, increasing acquaintance with Social- 

 ism's classic literature is breaking it down. 

 In this connection the following passage from 

 the pen of Isador Ladoff is very pertinent: 



^'Rationalistic modern Socialism is based, 



