to do so his answer would paraphrase Robert Inger- LITTLE 

 soil, when that gentleman was taken to task for un- JOURNEYS 

 fairness towards Moses, " Young man, you seem to 

 forget that I am not the attorney of Moses don't 

 worry, there are more than ten millions of men look- 

 ing after his case." 



Ernst Haeckel is not the attorney for either the doc- 

 tors or the clergy. 



It was Darwin and "The Origin of Species" that 

 tipped the beam for Hseckel in favor of science. Very 

 shortly after Darwin's great book was issued, in 1859, 

 a chance copy of the work fell into the hands of our 

 young physician. He read and spoke English, and in 

 a general way was interested in biology. 

 As he read of Darwin's observations and experiments 

 the heavens seemed to open before him. Things he 

 had vaguely felt, Darwin stated, and thoughts that 

 had been his, Darwin expressed. "I might have writ- 

 ten much of this book myself," he said. 

 The love of nature had been upon the young man al- 

 most from his babyhood. All children love flowers and 

 mix easily with the wonderful things that are found in 

 woods and fields. At twelve years of age Ernst had 

 formed a goodly herbarium, and was making a col- 

 lection of bugs, and not knowing their names or even 

 that they had names, he began naming them himself. 

 Later it came to him with a shock of surprise and 

 disappointment that the bugs and beetles had already 

 had the attention of scholars. But he got even by de- 

 claring that he would hunt out some of the tiny things 



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