SUPPLEMENT 243 



It is worthy of notice that the chief 'proof alleged 

 of Wasmann's defeat is the fact that the eleven 

 speakers were all opposed to him, not one took his 

 side, and of the general public no one came forward 

 to support him. I have explained this fact 

 adequately in dealing with the circumstances that 

 led up to the evening discussion. I was under the 

 necessity, either of retiring altogether from the 

 discussion, or of accepting the conditions imposed 

 by the majority. The list of speakers was given 

 in the programme which the President read out, 

 and it was therefore obvious that my numerous 

 supporters among the audience could express their 

 views only by their applause at the end of my final 

 speech. I have already dealt with the distortions 

 of truth, with which I have been charged by the 

 Berliner Morgenzeitung and a few other papers that 

 echo its sentiments. It is a sufficiently significant 

 fact that certain persons have had to have recourse 

 to such means as this, in order to weaken the force 

 of my answer. 



The impression made by the evening discussion 

 upon impartial listeners seems to have been, that the 

 violent attacks of my opponents did not succeed in 

 destroying the effect produced by my three lectures. 

 The Freisinnige Zeitung actually affirms this, and 

 says that my antagonists' lances were unable to 



Straggle in Berlin regarding the Cosmic Position of Man) p. 40. He 

 used, in fact, the same words as the Vossische Zeitung, but there is nothing 

 to be gained by a further consideration of his article. 



