Science and Philosophy 3 



verification was both unnecessary and im- 

 possible. 



The most striking instance of a scientific 

 man who on entering philosophic territory 

 has exhibited signs of exhilaration and 

 emancipation, is furnished by the case of 

 Professor Haeckel of Jena. In an eloquent 

 and popular work, entitled die Weltrathsel^ 

 the World Problem, or "The Riddle of 

 the Universe," this eminent biologist has 

 surveyed the whole range of existence, 

 from the foundations of physics to the 

 comparison of religions, from the facts of 

 anatomy to the freedom of the will, from 

 the vitality of cells to the attributes of God ; 

 treating these subjects with wide though 

 by no means superhuman knowledge, and 

 with considerable critical and literary ability. 

 This work, through the medium of a really 

 excellent translation by Mr M'Cabe, and 

 under the auspices of the Rationalist Press 

 Association, has obtained a wide circulation 

 in this country, being purchasable for six- 

 pence at any bookstall ; where one often 



