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cosmos, the universal sovereignty of nature's 

 supreme law, the law of substance" (p. 97). 



Illegitimate Negations. 



With regard to the possibility of Revela- 

 tion, or information derived from super- 

 human sources, naturally he ridicules the 

 idea ; but in connection with the mode of 

 origin and development of life on this planet 

 he makes the following sensible and note- 

 worthy admission : 



"It is very probable that these processes have 

 gone on likewise on other planets, and that other 

 planets have produced other types of the higher 

 plants and animals, which are unknown on our 

 earth ; perhaps from some higher animal stem, 

 which is superior to the vertebrate in formation, 

 higher beings have arisen who far transcend us 

 earthly men in intelligence." 



Exactly ; it is quite probable. It is, in fact, 

 improbable that man is the highest type of 

 existence. But if Professor Haeckel is ready 

 to grant that probability or even possibility, 

 why does he so strenuously exclude the idea 

 of revelation, i.e., the acquiring of imparted 



