THE STORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



Haeckel, the youthful but already noted zoologist, took 

 up the fight with equal enthusiasm. 



ASA GRAY 



Against these few doughty champions with here and 

 there another of less general renown was arrayed, at 

 the outset, practically all Christendom. The interest of 

 the question came home to every person of intelligence, 

 whatever his calling, and the more deeply as it became 

 more and more clear, how far-reaching are the real bear- 



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