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Berlin newspapers, and especially in the Vossische 

 Zeitung of February 12th, that ' two-thirds of all 

 the seats were assigned in advance to Catholic 

 associations and students' societies, which were to 

 start the applause.' 



The inaccuracy of this statement becomes 

 apparent, when we consider that there are scarcely 

 three hundred members of all the Catholic associa- 

 tions and students' societies collectively, whereas 

 there were at least one thousand persons present 

 at each of the lectures, and about two thousand 

 at the evening discussion. Moreover, this false 

 report published by the Vossische Zeitung was 

 immediately contradicted by Professor Plate, 1 a 

 member of the Committee, but his correction was 

 refused by the editor of the paper in question. 



At the request of the organising Committee, 

 before beginning my second lecture, I drew attention 

 to the falsehood of the assertion that any partiality 

 had been shown in the distribution of the admission 

 tickets, but, nevertheless, the report held its ground, 

 and was referred to again by Burdinski in his 

 Struggle in Berlin regarding the Cosmic Position of 

 Man (p. 2), which deals with my lectures. 



There is another point to which I must allude. 

 The syllabus of my Berlin lectures had been drawn 

 up long before the dissolution of the German Parlia- 

 ment. At the end of November, 1906, the great 



1 As Professor Plate is a member of the German Monistenbund (Monistic 

 Society), it is impossible to accuse him of being one of my partisans. 



