CHAPTER VII 



PROFESSOR HAECKEL'S 

 CONJECTURAL PHILOSOPHY 



A reply to Mr M ( Cabe. 



Part of the preceding, so far as it is a criticism 

 of Haeckel, was given by me in the first instance 

 as a Presidential Address to the Members of the 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute ; and the 

 greater portion of this Address was printed in the 

 Hibbert Journal lor January 1905. Mr M c Cabe, 

 the translator of Haeckel, thereupon took up the 

 cudgels on behalf of his Chief, and wrote an 

 article in the following July issue ; to the pages 

 of which references will be given when quoting. 

 A few observations of mine in reply to this 

 article emphasise one or two points which perhaps 

 previously were not quite clear ; and so this 

 reply, from the October number of the Hibbert 

 Journal, may be conveniently here reproduced. 



I have no fault to find with the tone of 



Mr M'Cabe's criticism of my criticism of 



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