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ran to more than 100,000 copies. It has also been 

 translated into fourteen different languages. The 

 controversy it excited has not yet died away. 

 Already a supplementary volume, The Wonders of 

 Life, has followed it (1904). Haeckel had been 

 working in this department with great vigour for 

 many years. He only made one appearance at a 

 German scientific congress since the Virchow affair. 

 That was on September 18, 1882, in quiet and 

 uncontroversial form. A little excitement was 

 caused amongst those who saw their salvation in 

 keeping the gentle Darwin far apart from the 

 impetuous Haeckel when he read a rather free 

 philosophical confession of Darwin's. Their tactics 

 broke down as the deceased Darwin passed into an j 

 historical personality and disappeared from the; 

 struggle of contending parties. In 1892 Haeckel I 

 wrote with great vigour in the militant Berlin j 

 journal, the Freie Buhne, on the new alliance of the 

 Church and political parties in Germany, criticising; 

 the political situation on general philosophical 

 principles, and in opposition to Virchow's spirit of 

 compromise. In the same year he delivered at 

 Altenburg a lecture on " Monism as a connecting 

 link between religion and science." In this he 

 took a conciliatory line, and showed how his philo- 

 sophic views could be reconciled with any really 

 sincere pursuit of truth, whatever aim it professed 

 to have. The address closed with the words: 1 

 " May God, the spirit of the good, the beautiful, 

 and the true, grant it." However, both his 

 criticism and his attempt at conciliation only led 



