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Miiller ' (himself a pioneer in anatomy) of 

 his rediscovery of Aristotle's remarkable 

 discovery of a special mode of reproduc- 

 tion in one of the species of sharks. For 

 two thousand years the founder of the 

 science of embryology had neither rival 

 nor worthy follower. There is no refer- 

 ence, I believe, to the biological works in the 

 Liters Humaniores papers for the past ten 

 years, yet they form the very foundations 

 of discoveries that have turned our philos- 

 ophies topsy-turvy. 



Nothing reveals the unfortunate break 

 in Humanities more clearly than the treat- 

 ment of the greatest nature-poet in litera- 

 ture, a man who had " gazed on Nature's 

 naked loveliness" unabashed, the man 

 who united, as no one else has ever done, 

 the ' ' functions and temper and achieve- 

 ment of science and poetry" (Herford). 

 The golden work of Lucretius is indeed 



1 Ueberden Glatten Hat des A ristotlcs. (Berlin, 1842.) 



