Human equality cannot be the result of materialistic evolution, "through the social process," as John Dewey would have us think. Soviet apostles of this gospel of violence tell the tall tale of Baron Munchausen to the proletariat that violent class-struggle is driving its arm through the mouth of the vicious bear Inequality to grasp its tail and pull it inside out as benevolent Equality for all men. He and Huxley fashioned and fitted the hilt of evolution to the blade of inequality and, flourishing it, raised the materialist's battlecry: Long live the stronger! Death to the weaker! Violence is salvation and perfection of the Superman! Exaggeration? Genteel materialism is cool fire. His ruthless god, the resultant of forces, implacably drives on the development of matter, of which man is only a kind. Spencer, the high priest of materialistic evolution, logically concludes from it that justice is the survival of the fittest (Utilitarianism, c.5). Its whole process is action of unequal material forces, in which only greater violence means survival- "nature red in tooth and claw." Existence for each and all is violence in one form or another violence is the creative law of all beings: so speaks the Zarathustra of materialism. For the materialist, eternally determined evolution of matter is the whole existence of humanity and of all that is.
Around its neck hangs the dead albatross of man's spirituality, shot by its crossbow of materialism. This is the principle of materialistic evolution, which is seen as the mainspring of the whole universe of reality.Ĭan sort? What harmony or true delight? (Milton, Paradise Lost, 8,383)Ĭharting youth's course to the port of life's voyage, our secular higher education is as uncomfortable and unhappy as the Ancient Mariner. The principle on which materialism must stand, or it falls apart, is that all existence is struggle between unequal material forces, in which the strongest, or fittest, invariably survives and the weaker is suppressed. They must hold in evident consequence that his treatment of others is determined by the invariably prevailing inequality of matter. Their fundamental understanding of the human being is that he is always forced in his thinking, willing and acting by the fixed laws of his material being. With very rare exception they all deny or ignore the very relevant fact that men are something more than beings completely driven by the inequality of the forces of matter. We find their view of mankind in the thousands of college textbooks on psychology, anthropology, philosophy and other studies of man as man. It is not a rash assumption that the majority of our professors, who form the thinking of our nation's future guides, are materialists. For the dialectical -that is, logical-materialist, the Americanism that "all men are created equal" must be like the "campaign promise," not to be taken seriously by the wise, an assertion for the simple-minded, noble sounding but impossible. Call materialism science, if you will you cannot call it American. Holding that man is only matter, the materialist must hold that absolute and universal inequality is the only possible form of human existence and treatment of others. In matter, then, inequality reigns absolutely and universally. Ultimately, materialism and mechanism differ only in name. That too, according to him, must be rigidly determined by the one invariable violence of "the resultant of forces and masses," like all other matter. It is beside the point for the materialist to introduce here psychology as a difference of action and reaction of human beings. For materialists, such too must be the situation of human beings. The balls have no choice of action or reaction much less have they any right to equal treatment by the other balls.
Each ball when struck by another will move with a speed and direction, which is determined by the balls' mass, speed, angle of impact, and circumstances. Suppose that we set in motion on a table a number of billiard balls of various sizes and weights. Consequently a materialist will hardly admit that matter and its forces has any right to equal treatment by associated matter and its forces.
Holding this view, materialists correctly agree, with most other thinkers, that matter and its powers cannot really choose one of alternative actions, so that in the same circumstances the other alternative could have been chosen instead. The common universitarian view of the world, called "materialism," holds as its basic principle that human beings, like everything else, are solely matter, with merely the powers of matter, acting only in one possible way and determined solely by the interplay of associated masses and their powers. Shop: Roman Catholic "RC" Brand Original White Logo Collection Women's Comfort Tee | Multiple colors and sizes available!
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