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perfectly clear from the context that such was his 

 meaning. 



The speaker here acknowledges what he had 

 previously denied, viz. that Haeckel very 

 often used the word Darwinism in a misleading 

 way, as synonymous with the, whole theory of 

 organic evolution. This concession on the part 

 of one who was for years Haeckel s assistant 

 is certainly very important. As further illustra 

 tions of his confused use of the name Darwinism, 

 I may refer to some passages in Haeckel s 

 Berlin lectures, delivered in 1905, entitled 

 Der Kampf um den Entwicklungsgedanken 

 (The Struggle regarding the Idea of Evolution). 

 On p. 20 he distinguishes clearly between 

 Darwinism and the theory of evolution, and 

 states definitely that by Darwinism we ought, 

 strictly speaking, to mean only Darwin s theory 

 of selection. But a few pages further on he 

 forgets this distinction and confuses Darwinism 

 with evolution in his old fashion. On p. 32 he 

 declares that I had explained my observations 

 on the inquilines among ants * quite in the 

 Darwinian sense. On p. 34, in speaking of 

 an alleged concession to the Church on my 

 part, he says that the organisms developed 

 in accordance with the Darwinian laws. 

 On p. 75 he calls me the Darwinian Jesuit, 

 and so on. In his use of Darwin s name, 



