CHAPTER VIII 



THE CROWNING YEAES 

 [By JOSEPH McCABE] 



WHEN Professor Bolsche closed 

 graphical sketch in 1900 with 

 stars that " still glowed," he had little 

 how widely they would yet flame out b< 

 passed from the firmament of biography 

 history. As it has proved, Haeckel was 

 entering upon the period of vast populai 

 which forms the closing part of his r 

 career. He had in 1900 a few thousand 1 

 readers in several countries beside his ( 

 day he is read by hundreds of thoi 

 Germany, England, France, and Italy, 

 fourteen different translations of his moi 

 work have carried his ideas over the wh 

 To-day the thoughts of this professor of 

 an obscure German town are discussed 

 bronzed and blackened artisans in the 

 of London, Paris, and Tokio, as well as t 

 Germany. The reader will have notic 



