248 THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION 



I consider it quite unnecessary to enter upon any 

 detailed discussion of the attacks upon me which 

 the Vossische Zeitung continued to publish for three 

 months after my lectures. I will allude only to 

 one article, which appeared on April 26th, and I 

 do so merely because it completely bears out the 

 opinion expressed in the Israelit. 



The Vossische Zeitung, speaking as the organ of 

 scientific men, allows itself to say : 



The point at issue (in the dispute with Father 

 Wasmann) is not whether the Jesuits are right in any 

 one department of science, but whether the multitude 

 regards them as right in their efforts against progress. 

 We need not repeat what is at stake. Everything 

 can be summed up in the word Counter- Reforma 

 tion. 



In reply, the Germania of April 27th remarked 

 with considerable bitterness : 



It comes to this : On scientific questions a 

 Jesuit can never be right, just because he is a 

 Jesuit. Even if occasionally a Jesuit should really 

 be right on a scientific point, he must not be allowed 

 to stand his ground, for his efforts are contrary to 

 progress; and if that statement does not suffice, 

 we are told that the liberty won by the Reformation 

 is at stake. In the eyes of the multitude he is thus 

 completely defeated, and we, the disciples of true 

 science, are freed from the ungrateful task of refuting 



very few of the numerous criticisms published by my opponents expressed 

 any sympathy with Haeckel and his Monism. 



