1 M.N. Roy’s Materialism Summarised and Simplified By Vinod Jain Chapter I Philosophy, Metaphysics and Theology The ignorance of the primitive man imagines supernatural forces behind natural phenomena. But imagination is not explanation; fantasy is not knowledge. Speculative philosophy leads not to truth, but to dream. If the enquiry starts from the real knowable concrete, it reveals the eternalness of nature, having no place for a creator. Strictly speaking, philosophy is materialism, and materialism is the only possible philosophy. The origin of everything that exists is matter. Metaphysics on the other hand reflects the belief of the savage. Metaphysics starts from assumption. Materialism deals with concrete things. Metaphysics is bound by an unverifiable hypothesis and by axioms deduced therefrom. Materialism accepts only that which can be verified by empirical knowledge. The correct method is to penetrate the unknown through the way already known. Anything that exists is knowable.