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statement than some of those which I have now detailed. It is impos- 

 sible, however, in one article to treat of all the new facts which have 

 been yielded bj this research ; so that by making the present article 

 dovetail with the one which was previously pviblished in Nature, and 

 also with future articles on the same subject, I shall hope eventually to 

 lay all the results before the general public. — Fortnightly Heview. 



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POPE AiS^D ANTI-POPE.^ 



By Peofessoe CAKL VOGT, 



or THE UNIVEESITY OF GENEVA. 



WHILE the political pope in Berlin and the clerical pope in Rome 

 are trjdng to come to an understanding with each other, the con- 

 troversy between the medical pope Virchow, of Berlin, and the zoological 

 pope Haeckel, of Jena, is just beginning. First come speeches, then 

 pamphlets, and very soon the heavy artillery of books will be brought 

 into the line of battle, for such is the strategy of the learned and the 

 tactics of the booksellers. The fray begins with Haeckel making a 

 speech at the Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians at Munich ; 

 next, Virchow hits back at the same congress ; then follows a sharp 

 fire i'rom the riflemen in the newspapers pro and con, according to the 

 side they take ; and, while this is going on, Haeckel sends into the field 

 a pamphlet of one hundred pages, as a storming battalion. We have 

 little doubt but that Virchow will answer with a volume twice as big, 

 and this is all the more to be expected since, as it seems to us, the 

 majority in this year's Congress of Naturalists (to judge from the 

 speeches and lectures delivered at Cassel) leaned 'to the side of 

 Haeckel. Then, too, the reception tendered to the two leaders in 

 Paris, where Haeckel was lionized, while Virchow was treated not very 

 kindly, will probably cause the latter to make another hostile movement. 

 Perhaps I ought to have entitled this article " Prophet and School- 

 master," for, while Haeckel confidently advances with his hypotheses 

 and phantasies, which he would fain palm off upon the public as " de- 

 monstrated truths," Virchow's manner is characterized by that school- 

 master air which is one of the prominent peculiarities of the Central 

 Prussians, and especially of the Berliners. You cannot be in the com- 

 pany of a man of Berlin for a quarter of an hour without feeling that 

 you are being corrected — in short, treated as a schoolboy ; and the men 

 of Berlin are surpassed in this respect only by the ladies. But, as in the 

 two contestants, with whom we have here principally to deal, the sense 

 of their own infallibility, which is the very note of the papal office, is 

 Specially prominent, and determines the whole tenor of their thoughts, 



' Translated from the German bv Gustav Miller. 



