Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-09-05

/ tion it is not surprising that he should
reach the conclusion that this philOsO-
| ply is "autiChristan in its every de-
tail "
Darwin and Marx were not theOlO-
gians. They did not think of the uni
verse in terms Of creed They were
men of science. They believed in the
| inviOlability of the laws Of nature and
| the necessary sequence of events. With
a merciless disregard for the cOnven-
tiOnal theory and the theology of their
| time they follow unwPariedly the
main clue to the riddle of the uni
verse, which their research had given
them. Darwin found the law of the
development of organic nature. Marx
discovered that of the development of
| human society.
All the old theories of man and the
universe were either demolished or
needed overhauling.
1t is not surprising that these scien-
fists we're bitterly assailed by the con
ventional- minded as the greatest enc
mics to religion, nor that they them
selves should have been mistaken as
to the antagOnism of their discoveries
to the real progress of christianity.
There has been a tremendous transi
tion of thought since the middle of the
nineteenth century and we are yet in
the midst of the passage from the old
to the new.
'Ihe old order changeth, yielding
place to the new,
And God fulfills himself in many ways
Lest one good custom should corrupt a
worlu."
The materialstc Interpretation of
history has given us a new view of hu
man society, and an immeasurably
larger world. Granted that there is
not sufficient room for the play of 9th
er forces-as the personal element,
art, education, religiOn-in the terms
in which Marx first expressed it, yet
it must be admitted he has indicated
the main clue and his arguments have
never been answered. His conclusions
are summed up in the Communistc
Manifesto as follows: "[n every his
torical epoch the prevailing method of
economic production and exchange,
and the social organization neressaria-
ly following from it, form the basis
upon which is built up, and from
which alone can be explained, the pol
iti2al history of that epoch; and con-
srqurntly the whole history of man
kind, since the dissolution of primi-
tive tribal society, holding land in
common ownership, has been history
Of class struggles, contests between ex-
plotting and exploited, ruling and op-
pressed classes; the history of these
class struggles form a series of evolu-
tiOns. Nowadays a stage has beer
reached where the exploited and OPP
pressed Class--the oletariat-cannOt
attain its emancipation from the rul-
ing and exploiting class the bOurg-
eoisie-withou at the same time and
once for all emancipating society at
large from all exploitation, oppression,
class distinction and class struggle.
Here for the first time comes into
view the vast significance of the econ
omic aud social life of the common
people in the evolution of society,
History had heretofore been written
from the standpoint of monarchs,
premier, mobiles, generals, pOpes,
councils, battlefelds, etc. bat his new
Interpretation of history shows that it
must be written from the standpoint
of the working people.
The insecurity about & mans chance
of gotting tomorrow s thinner or the
uniustness about the way man has to
use the chance plays an important
mart in his intellectual ana moral life,
in fact affects his whole life. The
; r.se t system Of wages ana capital
iem ia TIL Ie-ut Of long process of
evolution. Marx HIS >A0un us how it