also (his) faith in Christ. "^ Stolzle took this confidence 

 from journal articles, based on information from a Pastor 

 Engelhardt. The later asserted that on his deathbed Baer 

 regretted his unbelief. The foolishness of this idea was 

 documented not long ago by B. E. Raikov. 6 



Also, contentious and groundless discussions of Baer's 

 philosophical ideas were given by Stolzle. Their source was 

 explained by him as Schelling's natural philosophy, which at 

 the beginning of the nineteenth century had received very 

 wide distribution among naturalists. About the wreck of 

 natural philosophy, Stolzle correctly wrote. Instead of the 

 fantastic opinions which fear experiments, come sober ideas 

 which are based on experiments instead of intuition, on the 

 firm and slow work of induction in place of metaphysics — 

 either the rejection of all that is transcendent, as in the 

 ideas of Francis Bacon, as also in the ideas of Kant and 

 Comte, or materialism. 7 Talking of Baer's earlier interest 

 in Naturphilosophie and even mentioning his ironic references 

 to the lecture of Wagner, Stolzle nevertheless remarked that 



5. Ibid . , p. 644. 



6. B. E. Raikov, "Poslednie dni Baera" (Baer's last days) , 

 TRUDY INSTITUTA ISTORII ESTESTVOZNANIYA AN SSSR, 



2 (1948) , pp. 575-583. 



If it could not be doubted that church orthodoxy was 

 alien to Baer throughout his life, then it would be dif- 

 ficult to state with confidence his relation to deistic 

 thought. In his writings, especially in his popular 

 scientific discussions, one finds theories of creation 

 as first origin of all beings. See, for example, the series 

 of articles under the common title "Man's Place in Nature," 

 published in NATURALIST, Vol. II (1865), Nos. 2, 3, 4, 

 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24; Vol. Ill (1866), Nos. 9, 18, 22, 

 23, and 24; Vol. IV (1867), Nos. 1, 2, and 3. These 

 articles, according to B. E. Raikov, were strongly mis- 

 represented by the censor. 



In these articles, and also in his German- language 

 article "On the Doctrine of Darwin" ("Uber Darwin's Lehre," 

 REDEN . . . UND KLEINERE AUFSATZE, II, pp. 235-480). 

 Baer argued against Darwin and his followers (mainly against 

 T. Huxley) on the question of the origin of man, decisively 



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