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as a favour, not in future to confuse my 

 theistic opinions with deism, and still less not 

 to connect them with Haeckel s atheism to 

 do so would be an absolute misrepresentation 

 based on falsehood. 



In the course of the speeches delivered in 

 the spring of 1907, when he was travelling 

 about in his capacity as General Secretary of 

 the Monistic Association, and especially at 

 Vienna, where he tried to gain adherents to 

 that Association, Dr. Schmidt-Jena asserted 

 several times that Father Wasmann had already 

 passed from theism to deism, and was on the 

 verge of becoming a pantheist. If the German 

 Monistic Association is forced to have recourse 

 to such means as these to win adherents, it 

 certainly does not make for enlightenment. 

 I fully concur with the sharp criticism pro 

 nounced by Professor Reinke at Herrenhaus 

 on May 10th, 1907, when, in speaking of the 

 exertions of this Monistic Association, he 

 declared them to be a common danger to 

 German culture. 1 



In his lecture on Natural Science and Religion 

 (Die Propylaen, March 13th, 1907, No. 24) 

 Professor Reinke propounded what are prac 

 tically the same opinions regarding the rela 

 tions existing between scientific research and 



1 See also Reinke s article on Haeckel s Monism and its Supporters: a 

 Free Word for Free Science. Leipzig, 1907. 



