ABSTRACT
The religious crisis does not become too much distorted by the processes of people's consciousness and therefore the subjective phenomenon is not too far removed from reality, except perhaps in its secondary manifestations. It seems probable that these sects will end by losing themselves, like little rivers, in the great socialist stream, for actually their doctrines do not satisfy any human need. To many bourgeois the Christian religious wave on which they ride seems to be a means for combating socialism. That is to say that among the many manifestations of the religious sentiment, they choose, or rather believe they choose, the one which is least opposed to their interests. Socialism has grown and become strong almost exclusively through the toil and effort of the bourgeois. It is well known at the Stock Exchange that the public at large buys only in a rising market and sells in a declining one.
