CHAPTER VIL— Haeckel's Latest Production— 

 Hi-s Extreme Modesty — Reception of the Welt- 

 raetsel — Schmidt's Apologia — The Romanes In- 

 cident — Men of Science Who Convicted Haeckel 

 of Deliberate Fraud 104 



CHAPTER VIII.— Grottewitz Writes on "Darwinian 

 Myths" — Darwinism Incapable of Scientific Proof 

 — "ThePrincipleof Gradual Development Certain- 

 ly Untenable"— "Darwin's Theory of "Chance" a 

 Myth" 118 



CHAPTER IX.— Professor Fleischmann of Erlan- 

 gen — Doctrine of Descent Not Substantiated — 

 Missing Links — "Collapse of Haeckel's Theory" 

 — Descent Hypothesis "Antiquated" — Fleisch- 

 mann Formerly a Darwinian — Haeckel's Dis- 

 reputable Methods of Defense 124 



CHAPTER X.— Hertwig, the Berlin Anatomist, Pro- 

 tests Against the Materialistic View of Life" — No 

 Empiric Proof of Darwinism — "The Impotence of 

 Natural Selection" — Rejects Haeckel's "Bioge- 

 netic Law" 137 



