MORAL MATERIALISM. 37 
“yaw material,’ and the glorious world of phenomena 
arising from it—insensible to the inexhaustible charms 
of Nature, and without a knowledge of her laws—they 
stigmatize all natural science, and the culture arising from 
it, as sinful “materialism,” while really it is this which they 
themselves exhibit in a most shocking form. Satisfactory 
proofs of this are furnished, not only by the whole history 
of the Catholic Popes, with their long series of crimes, but 
also by the history of the morals of orthodoxy in every 
form of religion. 
In order, then, to avoid in future the usual confusion of 
this| utterly objectionable Moral Materialism with our 
Scientific Materialism, we think it necessary to call the 
latter either Monism or Realism. The principle of this 
Monism is the same as what Kant terms the “ principle of 
mechanism,” and of which he expressly asserts, that without 
at there can be no natural science at all. This principle is 
quite inseparable from our Non-miraculous History of Crea- 
tion, and characterizes it as opposed to the teleological belief 
in the miracles of a Supernatural History of Creation. 
Let us now first of all glance at the most important of all 
the supernatural histories of creation, I mean that of 
' Moses, as it has been handed down to us in the Bible, the 
ancient document of the history and laws of the Jewish 
people. The Mosaic history of creation, since in the first 
chapter of Genesis it forms the introduction to the Old 
Testament, has enjoyed, down to the present day, general 
recognition in the whole Jewish and Christian world of 
civilization. Its extraordinary success is explained not 
only by its close connection with Jewish and Christian 
doctrines, but also by the simple and natural chain of ideas 
