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has been unable to eliminate its unpleasant conse- 

 quences. But the opportunity of enforcing his 

 gospel in the capital of the Empire, where the 

 Virchows and Du Bois-Eeymonds had ruled so: 

 long made him deaf to the counsels of prudence.! 

 He chose as his theme the controversy in regard 

 to evolution, and gave three spirited lectures. The 

 changed world came home to him vividly enough. 

 A vast and enthusiastic gathering of admirers in] 

 one of the finest halls in Berlin : outside, at the 1 

 very door, his clerical opponents distributing hand- 

 bills that offered a choice selection of the mosi, 

 venernous attacks on his person and work. The 

 lectures are now available in English under thci 

 title of Last Words on Evolution. 



The present state of Haeckel's health forbids 

 him to hope that he will do any more active work 

 As I write, he lies in his villa, in " Haeckel Street, 1 , 

 overlooking the handsome Zoological Institute! 

 which he raised, and the little university towi: 

 that he has made known to the world. Beyoru 

 the graceful hills that cradle it, he sees the darl 

 waves tossing that he has worked so hard to set ii 

 motion. In Germany the alliance of the Empero: 

 with the Catholics saddens him, but the Jesuit; 

 are accepting evolution, over the fresh grave o 

 Virchow. Abroad his ideals, even his ideas, ar 

 making triumphant progress. He thinks of thij 

 vast changes that have taken place since he stoo( 

 out, almost alone, reckless of all but honour an( 

 truth, at the Stettin Congress in 1863. u Das Leber 

 ist schon," he still repeats. What will men say o 



