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Haeckel, and it is satisfactory that one who 

 has proved himself an enthusiastic disciple, 

 as well as a most industrious and competent 

 translator, should stand up for the honour 

 and credit of a foreign Master when he is 

 attacked. 



But in admitting the appropriateness 

 and the conciliatory tone of his article, I 

 must not be supposed to agree with its 

 contentions ; for although he seeks to show 

 that after all there is but little difference 

 between myself and Haeckel and although 

 in a sense that is true as regards the funda- 

 mental facts of science, distinguishing the 

 facts themselves from any hypothetical and 

 interpretative gloss yet with Haeckel's 

 interpretations and speculative deductions 

 from the facts, especially with the mode of 

 presentation, and the crude and unbalanced 

 attacks on other fields of human activity, 

 my feeling of divergence occasionally be- 

 comes intense. 



And it is just these superficial, and as 

 Mr M'Cabe now admits hypothetical, and 



