Oh. XIV.] 1861—1871. 263 



laria (1862), and at the " Versammlung " of Naturalists at 

 Stettin in 1863, that placed the Darwinian question for the 

 first time publicly before the forum of German science, and 

 his enthusiastic propagandism that chiefly contributed to its 

 success. 



Mr. Huxley, writing in 1869, paid a high tribute to Professor 

 Haeckel as the Corvphfflus of the Darwinian movement in 

 Germany. Of his Generelle Morphologic, " an attempt to work 

 out the practical applications " of the doctrine of Evolution to 

 their final results, he says that it has the " force and suggestive- 

 ness, and . . . systematising power of Oken without his extra- 

 vagance." Mr. Huxley also testifies to the value of Haeckel's 

 Schopfungs-Geschichte as an exposition of the Generelle Mor- 

 phologic " for an educated public." 



Again, in his Evolution in Biology* Mr. Huxley wrote: 



* Whatever hesitation may not unfrequently bo felt by less 

 daring minds, in following Haeckel in many of his specula- 

 tions, his attempt to systematise the doctrine of Evolution and 

 to exhibit its influence as the central thought of modern 

 biology, cannot fail to have a far-reaching influence on the 

 progress of science." 



In the following letter my father alludes to the somewhat 

 fierce manner in which Professor Haeckel fought the battle of 



* Darwinismus,' and on this subject Dr. Krause has some good 

 remarks (p. 162). He asks whether much that happened in tho 

 heat of the conflict might not well have been otherwise, and 

 adds that Haeckel himself is the last man to deny this. Never- 

 theless he thinks that even these things may have worked 

 well for the cause of Evolution, inasmuch as Haeckel "con- 

 centrated on himself by his TJrsprung des Menschen-Geschlechts, 

 his Generelle Morphologic, and Schopfungs-Geschichte, all the 

 hatred and bitterness which Evolution excited in certain 

 quarters," so that, " in a surprisingly short time it became the 

 fashion in Germany that Haeckel alone should be abused, 

 while Darwin was held up as the ideal of forethought and 

 moderation." 



C. D. to 2. Haeckel Down, May 21, 1867. 



Deab Haeckel, — Your letter of the 18th has given me great 

 pleasure, for you have received what I said in the most kind and 



* An article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edit, reprinted in 

 Science and Culture, 1881, p. 298. 



