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does," was the prompt reply. *^Very good/' said 

 the Grand Duke, ^^then the man simply does the 

 same as you do." 



Haeckel remained a professor at Jena; and 

 when the current subsided a httle, he was not 

 insensible of their liberality. He remained faithful 

 to Jena, though even Vienna, amongst other places, 

 offered him a position (1871). Under his guidance 

 ^^ zoological" Jena flourished like a poor orphan 

 that has suddenly been enriched. At one stroke 

 the university was lifted to the position of an 

 intellectual metropolis for the whole of the young 

 scientific generation of the last quarter of the 

 century. The best of the younger men that fill 

 the biological positions in Germany to-day (and 

 many others) were educated under Haeckel. Many 

 of these pupils became opponents of his eventually, 

 but they all went through his system. He had a 

 further satisfaction. He not only attracted the 

 young men to Jena, but he conjured up as if by 

 magic the financial resources for improving the 

 external advantages of the place for teaching and 

 working. His style of "zoology," which was at 

 the same time ''natural philosophy," brought 

 people to his assistance who would never have 

 been won by a narrowly technical zoologist, no 

 matter how learned he was. Twice men were 

 induced '' for his sake " — that is to say, induced 

 by the magnetic force of his charming personality— 

 to leave large legacies to be spent on the university 

 under his direction; once it was the Countess 

 Bose, another time Paul von Eitter of Basle. 



