English Translation

9.) In this context, I would like to make only a brief interim remark on another significant social factor: on religion and the religious conception of life. In the development of society, the social factor of religion plays such a big role that it would be oberflgohlioh and uneducated, but knowingly, sociologically simply an unsin to pass over and deny it, democracy reflects science and all scientific, philosophic and moral mental forces, and places its main thesis precisely on the exactly scientifically correct recognition of all material and spiritual factors of social development. Religion has always been a great spiritual and sittliohe force in every society. Therefore, democracy as a political and ideal system of freedom of mind and tolerance and as a hopeless spiritualist worldview cannot be anti-religious. As a democrat to religion as one of the great factors of social development and as one the great spiritual and moral forces in the society of duroba. Therefore, when I speak about the differences between the main concepts of authoritarianism and democracy, I come to the eternal opposition and the struggle between materialism and spiritualism. This struggle is the constant content of the entire history of philosophy from the most distant antiquity to the present.