122 EVOLUTION, SOCIAL AND ORGANIC 



Other learned Englishman has called the fun- 

 damental principle of Darwinism 'the survival 

 of the fittest, the victory of the best.' 



"At all events the principle of selection is 

 not in the slightest degree democratic; it is, 

 on the contrary, thoroughly aristocratic. If 

 then, Darwinism, carried out to its ultimate 

 logical consequences, has, according to Vir- 

 chow, for the statesman 'an extraordinarily 

 dangerous side ' the danger is doubtless that 

 it favors aristocratic aspirations." 



And now let us turn to the closing pages 

 of the second volume of Haeckel's valuable 

 work, "The History of Creation." We shall 

 find it interesting and instructive to observe 

 the nature of the argument which he there 

 uses with great effect against Virchow. Vir- 

 chow had delivered his celebrated address at 

 Berlin, which closed as follows: "It is abso- 

 lutely certain that Man is not descended from 

 apes." 



Haeckel takes this up, gives a resume of the 

 facts known to zoology on this point, and then 

 winds up with the following: "In view of 

 this state of affairs, we zoologists^ recognized 

 as authorities on the subject, may surely ask, 

 How can many so-called anthropologists still 

 maintain that there exists no sort of actual 

 proofs of the 'Derivation of Man from Apes'? 



