LITTLE the scholars had overlooked and classify them. Every 

 JOURNEYS man imagines himself the first man, and to think that 



he is Adam and that he has to go forth, get acquainted 

 with things and name them, reveals the true bent of 

 the scientist. 



Dr. Hseckel was ripe for Darwin's book. He was look- 

 ing for it, and it only took a slight jolt to dislodge him 

 from the medical profession and allow the Law of 

 Affinity to do the rest. Wallace had written Darwin's 

 book under another name, and if these men had not 

 written it, Haeckel surely would, for it was all packed 

 away in his heart and head. As Darwin had studied 

 and classified the Cirripedia, so would he write an 

 essay on Rhizopods. Luck was with him luck is 

 always with the man of purpose. He had an oppor- 

 tunity to travel through Italy as medical caretaker to 

 a rich invalid. Sickness surely has its uses; and rich 

 invalids are not wholly a mistake on the part of Set- 

 ebos. Hseckel secured the leisure and the opportunity 

 to round up his Rhizopods. 



He presented the work to the University of Jena, be- 

 cause this was the University that Goethe attended, 

 and the gods of Haeckel were three Gcethe, Darwin 

 and Johannes Muller. Muller was instructor in Zool- 

 ogy at Berlin, a man quite of the Agassiz type "who 

 made himself beloved by the boys because he was 

 what he was a boy in heart, with a man's head and 

 the soul of a saint. Some one said of Muller, "To him 

 every look into a microscope was a service to God." 

 In his reverent attitude he was like Linnaeus who fell 

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