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when he declares that " the amphioxus, skull-less, 

 brainless and memberless as it is, deserves all re- 

 spect as being of our own flesh and blood," and that 

 this same brainless creature " has better right to be 

 an object of profoundest admiration and devoutest 

 reverence, than any of that worthless rabble of so- 

 called 'saints,' in whose honor our 'civilized and en- 

 lightened* cultured nations erect temples and decree 



processions." 



Type of a Class. 



But we need not follow further the Jena profes- 

 sor in his extravagant speculations and his wild dia- 

 tribes against religion and Christian philosophy. He 

 has already been given more attention than his work 

 deserves. He is, however, a type of a class, and of 

 quite a large class of scientific men who hold sim- 

 ilar views, and who reason in a similar manner. The 

 saying, ab uno disce omnes, is specially applicable here, 

 because to know one, and, especially, to know the 

 leader, is to know all. The methods of all those be- 

 longing to the school of which Haeckel is such an 

 outspoken exponent are identical. They are all ex- 

 perts in the " art of making things appear and dis- 

 appear," and if not as adroit as their master in the use 

 of sophism, they are, nevertheless, able to deceive 

 the unwary and thus accomplish untold mischief. 



Considering the nature of the teachings of Mon- 

 ism, it is not surprising that Haeckel and his school 

 should have such a multitude of adherents and sym- 

 pathizers as they are known to have. 



"In the troublous times in which we live," ob- 

 serves the distinguished savant, the Marquis de 



