III.
The materialistic doctrine that men are the products of conditions and education, different men therefore the products of other conditions and changed education, forgets that circumstances may be altered by men and that the educator has himself to be educated. It necessarily happens therefore that society is divided into two parts, of which one is elevated above society (Robert Owen for example).
The occurrence simultaneously of a change in conditions and human activity can only be comprehended and rationally understood as a revolutionary fact.