84 Life and Matter [chap. v. 



sympathy and indignation. And when one expos- 

 tulates with these brutal 'Christians* on their 

 cruelty, the only answer is, with a laugh : 'But 

 the beasts are not Christians'" (p. 126). 



This, if true, and I have heard it from 

 other sources, does constitute rather a 

 serious indictment against the form of 

 practical Christianity understood by the 

 ignorant classes among the Latin races. 



To return, however, to the concluding 

 paragraph of the extract quoted above (on 

 page 81) from his page 119 : 



No one can have any objection to raise 

 against the dignity and worthiness of the 

 three great attributes which excite Professor 

 Haeckel's, as they excited Goethe's, worship 

 and admiration, viz., the three " goddesses," 

 as he calls them : Truth, Goodness, and 

 Beauty ; but there is no necessary competi- 

 tion or antagonism between these and the 

 other three great conceptions which aroused 

 the veneration of Kant : God, Freedom, and 

 Immortality ; nor does the upholding of the 

 one triad mean the overthrow of the other : 



