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until my medical studies were completed, and I 

 began to practise. I then came to understand 

 Faust's saying, ^ The whole sorrow of humanity 

 oppresses me.' I found no more of the infinite 

 benevolence of a loving father in the hard school 

 of life than I could see of * wise providence ' in the 

 struggle for existence." 



When the three terms of medical training were 

 over, he received another impulse to his own 

 particular interest in science. Kolliker invited 

 him in August, 1856, to spend the two months' 

 holiday with him on the Eiviera. It was the 

 first Mediterranean school of zoology, though as 

 yet only a kind of ^* payment on account." On the 

 journey he made the acquaintance of the zoological 

 museum at Turin and its well-travelled director, 

 Filippo de Filippi, and he saw the grandeur of 

 the Maritime Alps on the Col di Tenda. The 

 master, Kolliker, Heinrich Muller, Karl Kupffer 

 (afterwards professor at Munich), and he established 

 themselves at Nice, and fished for all sorts of 

 creatures with the Muller net at Villefranche. 

 Fortunately, Muller himself happened to be visiting 

 the Eiviera at the same time, and they received 

 a direct stimulus from him. The first result of 

 this journey in the summer and autumn was that 

 Haeckel secured his degree with a zoological- 

 anatomical work, instead of with a strictly medical 

 treatise. As he had done from Heligoland two 

 years before, he now brought home from the 

 Mediterranean the material for a short technical 

 theme. He again spent the winter at Berlin to 



