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merited physical philosopher — that he had found 

 no atheistic philosophy which had not a God 

 somewhere. 



Haeckel's own statement of this aspect of 

 his philosophy is somewhat interesting. He 

 says : " Thf* opponents of the doctrine of evo- 

 lution are very fond of branding the monistic 

 philosophy grounded upon it as * materialism ' 

 by com^diYmg philosophical materialism with the 

 wholly different and censurable moral material- 

 ism. Strictly, however, our ' monism ' might as 

 accurately or as inaccurately be called spiritual- 

 ism as materialism. The real materialistic phi- 

 losophy asserts that the phenomena of vital 

 motion, like all other phenomena of motion, 

 are effects or products of matter. The other 

 opposite extreme, spiritualistic philosophy, 

 asserts, on the contrary, that matter is the 

 product of motive force, and that all material 

 forms are produced by free forces entirely inde- 

 pendent of the matter itself. Thus, according 

 to the materialistic conception of the universe, 

 matter precedes motion or active force ; accord- 

 ing to the spiritualistic conception of the uni- 

 verse, on the contrary, active force or motion 

 precedes matter. Both views are dualistic, and 

 we hold them both to be equally false. A con- 



