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the tide of opinion which has now begun 

 to flow in another direction. He is, as it 

 were, a surviving voice from the middle of 

 the nineteenth century ; he represents, in 

 clear and eloquent fashion, opinions which 

 then were prevalent among many leaders of 

 thought opinions which they themselves in 

 many cases, and their successors still more, 

 lived to outgrow ; so that by this time 

 Professor Haeckel's voice is as the voice of 

 one crying in the wilderness, not as the 

 pioneer or vanguard of an advancing army, 

 but as the despairing shout of a standard- 

 bearer, still bold and unflinching, but 

 abandoned by the retreating ranks of his 

 comrades as they march to new orders in a 

 fresh and more idealistic direction. 



