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much is said, but concerning which there is so little 

 accurate knowledge. As is manifest from the above 

 five propositions, it is but a neologistic formulation 

 of old errors ; a recrudescence, in modern scientific 

 terminology, of the teachings of the Ionian and 

 Greek materialistic schools ; a rechauff of the well- 

 known atomic theory of Leucippus and Democritus 

 of Abdera ; a mixtum compositum of science, philoso- 

 phy and theology ; an olla podrida compounded of 

 the most glaring errors and absurdities of Atheism, 

 Materialism and Pantheism, ancient and modern. 



God, and the Soul. 



God, according to Haeckel, is but a useless hy- 

 pothesis. A personal " Creator is only an idealized 

 organism, endowed with human attributes ; a gross 

 anthropomorphic conception, corresponding with a 

 low animal stage of development of the human or- 

 ganism." Haeckel's idea of God, an idea which, he 

 assures us, " belongs to the future," is the idea which 

 was expressed by Giordano Bruno when he asserted 

 that : "A spirit exists in all things, and no body is so 

 small but contains a part of the Divine substance 

 within itself, by which it is animated." In the words 

 of one of Haeckel's school, the true God is the 

 totality of the correlated universe, the Divine reality, 

 and there is, therefore, "no possible room for an 

 extra-mundane God, a ghost, or a spook, anyway or 

 anywhere." 



The atom, eternal and uncreated, is the sole God 

 of the monist. Haeckel's atom, however, is not the 

 atom of the chemist an infinitesimally small par- 



