ction
of facts. The facts of course are necessary, but science comes
only when we push through the facts and find the laws behind
them.

The discovery that gave birth to Scientific Socialism had to do
with history. This discovery changed our ideas as to what
constitutes history. The rise and fall of kings, tales of bloody
wars, the news of camp and courts; these were supposed to be all
that was important in history. This has been well called: "Drum
and trumpet history."

Since 1848 history is the story of the development of human
society. The introduction of machinery overshadows all kings and
courts in history, as we now know it, because it played a
greater part in social development than ten thousand kings.

History itself is not a science but it is one of the chief parts
of "the science of society"--sociology.

Historical movement like all movement proceeds by law. When Karl
Marx discovered the central law of history he became the real
founder of modern sociology. His discovery of this law of
history ranks with Newton's discovery of gravity or the
Copernican revolution in astronomy. It ranks Marx as one of the
men whose genius created a new epoch in human thinking.

Marx made the discovery before 1848, but that date is immortal
because in that year it was published to the world. That date
ranks with 1859 when the "undying Darwin" gave us "The Origin of
Species."

The book was not intended for a book and became a book only by
reason of its great importance. It was published as a political
manifesto--the manifesto of "The Communist League." Hence its
name--"The Communist Manifesto." This book is the foundation and
starting point of Scientific Socialism and is indispensable to
all students of social science or social questions.

The book itself explains why it is not "The Socialist Manifesto"
as we might have expected. At that time the various groups using
Socialist as a title were Utopian and some of them positively
reactionary. There is a description and analysis of these groups
in the third chapter which shows why Marx had no part in them.
Their advocates know nothing of the new historical principle
which now stands at the center of Socialist thought and which
has successfully withstood half a century of searching
criticism.

This great new pri