SOCIALISM AND POSITIVE 

 SCIENCE. 



PART I. 

 CHAPTER I. 



VIRCHOW AND HAECKEL AT THE CONGRESS 

 OF MUNICH. 



ON the 1 8th September, 1877, Ernest 

 Haeckel, the celebrated embryologist 

 of Jena, gave an eloquent address at 

 the Congress of Naturalists, held at Munich, in 

 defence and explanation of Darwinism, at that 

 time the subject of most stormy controversies. 



Some days after, Virchow, the great path- 

 ologist a fighter in the parliamentary " pro- 

 gressive " party, who hates new theories in 

 politics as much as in science violently 

 attacked the Darwinian theory of organic 

 evolution, and with a very just presentiment 

 launched against it the cry of alarm and the 

 political anathema; " Darwinism leads directly 

 to Socialism." 



The German followers of Darwin, with 



