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quoted to Haeckel the page and letter in the 

 German code on which he might take action ! 



But a great counterpoise to these bitter attacks 

 attacks that forgot, as Gramzow says, that 

 " there is an ethic for the critic as well as for the 

 man of science " had now been provided. Men 

 like Dr. Schmidt, Dr. Breitenbach, Professor 

 Bolsche, and Professor Verworn rallied to their 

 master, and conveyed a juster image of him 

 and his work to the public. The ominous 

 silence of the great biologists was felt to mean 

 that his views were, in substance, no heresy 

 to them. The man's warm and enthusiastic 

 zeal for truth and humanity, his earnest 

 efforts to pierce the barriers that shut off the 

 treasures of science from the mass, could not be 

 ignored. A cheaper edition of his work was 

 demanded, and it was soon in the hands of more 

 than 150,000 readers. Country after country 

 imported his " gospel of Monism," the stirring 

 agitation spread to France, England, America, 

 Italy, and on until it reached Australia and Japan. 

 To-day fourteen translations of the Riddle bear 

 his teaching to the ends of the world. 



Little need be said here of the Haeckel contro- 

 versy in this country. I remember well the day 

 when the German work was submitted to me with 

 a view to publication. It did not seem to have 

 the stuff of a conflagration in it. I hazarded a 

 guess that it would sell a thousand copies, and 

 thought that it contained so valuable a description 

 of the evolution of mind that it should be published. 



