There Must Be Revolution - BY MORRISON I. SWIFT - Man's Intelligence and Science

Sep 21, 2026

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Bilingual-free English text presents a revolutionary manifesto by Morrison I. Swift, arguing that humanity has reached a beginning of a “great life” by moving beyond religious superstition and mental hallucination. It frames the coming “New Revolution” as an Epoch of Trust in Man’s Intelligence, driven by science and its inventions, and calls for massive investment in scientific regeneration, the rectification of human relations, and the liquidation of privilege and inequality. It also describes social crash outcomes, mass organization, and harsh policies toward those unable to rise.

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There Must Be Revolution

The Curse of Capitalism

Our Senile Religions

97-84108-27Swift,Morrison Isaac There must be revolution # COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET OBIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbila University Libraries. ## RESTRICTIONS ON USE: # TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZE: 35mnREDUCTION RATIO: 10:/ IMAGE PLACEMENT:IA IIB INITIALS: B DATE FILMED: 6-4-97 TRACKING\#: 24784 FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA. 132 4-5·34 ## There Must Be Revolution BY MORRISON I.SWIFT Man has at last reached the beginning of a greatlife.He has been saturated with religious superstitionsand hallucinations which paralyzed and distorted hisbrain,and now he sees that all these have treacherouslyfailed him.He never relied on himself and his brainsalone,and that was his fatal blunder.All religion isstagnation and decay.The New Revolution we are nowentering is the Epoch of Trust in Man's Intelligencealone.That intelligence has already vindieated itself inScience with surpassing brilliance after long black agesof repression by religion,and its work is only begun.Science and its inventions have been man's only reallygreat achievements in the entire Christian cra. From now on unlimited wealth must be expendedin the scientific regeneration of man and the world,and his rescue from religion.Human relations mustfirst be rectified by shutting off luxury and using thewealth shamefully squandered on it for developing allpeople to the topmost limit of their ability.The richelass and inequality must be liquidated.This is a Cru-sade which should be launched on theworld by America,whose material resources and latent brains are so vast.Those mentally unable to rise to this standard of lifeshould be eliminated by non-propagation.The greatsocial crash was a most needed event for revealing therottenness and ruin that religion and starved brainshave brought on mankind.There is no reason for dis-may.This greatest revolution must be executed by themasses of people in new forms of organization and ac-tion.No public officials can accomplish it. The pages of this booklet have been circulated sep-arately at the times of their date.They are exhibits ofphases of man's slavery to his folly,and their broadpurpose is to show that man is the sole architect of hisdestiny and should take control. Price 15 cents postpaid.Ten copies $1. THE LIBERTY PBESS, CENTRAL POST OFFICE 308 BOSTON,MASS. Z 0x395 ## The Curse of Capitalism Capitalism split America into rich and poor.Itrotted the rich with luxury and rotted the poor withpoverty.It robbed the poor of opportuntles,degrad-ing them and degrading the whole nation.The richwere excessively depraved by thelr greed and self-indulgence.Most of them were so dehumanized bytheir rlehes that they eared little what became of thecountry if they could gorge,dress,drink,strut,travel,play,squander and debauch.Or the colossal crimesof capitalists two were supremely deadly.Before eap-italism got its pace this was an American country,fairly homogeneous in population.Capitallsm wreckedthat,frst with the civil war with whlch capltallstscrushed the south,killing hosts of genufne Americansof both sections;secondly,with the huge foreign pop-ulations which capitalists lured here with les,towork slavishly for mean pay and eapitalists'enrich-ment.This immense ma8s profoundly changed Am-erican character.The swindlng capitalists,not theswindled immigrants were to blame. The eapitalists also debauched the Americanstock by putting money above manhood.To 'rise',young Amerieans had to toady to the soulless money-grabbers.Capitallsts owned the spineless collegeprofessors and the more spineless obsequious clergles,and used both to glority the foul crimes of capital-ism.Pursuit of

FAQs

What does Morrison I. Swift identify as the cause of humanity’s stagnation?

He argues that religious superstition and hallucinations paralyze and distort human brains, and that reliance on religion—not on human intelligence—caused failure and stagnation.

What is Swift’s proposed basis for the “New Revolution”?

He states that the new era is the Epoch of Trust in Man’s Intelligence, with science and its inventions as humanity’s main achievements and the core engine of progress.

How does the text connect capitalism to social inequality?

It claims capitalism splits America into rich and poor, rots the poor with poverty, degrades opportunities, and enables the wealthy to profit from crime and exploitation, including through manipulation of institutions.

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