the author treats the Romanes incident. Romanes ranks, 

 as is well known, among the first of Haeckel's authorities. 

 Hence it is a very painful fact that, but a short time before 

 the publication of the first edition of the "Weltraetsel," my 

 translation into German of Romanes' "Thoughts on Reli- 

 gion" should have appeared. From this book it was evi- 

 dent that Haeckel and his associates could no longer count 

 this man among their number since he — a life-long seeker 

 after truth — had abandoned atheism for theism, and died a 

 believing Christian. Troeltsch and the "Reichsbote" asked 

 whether Haeckel had purposely concealed this fact, and 

 Schmidt now explains that Haeckel first became acquain- 

 ted with the "Thoughts on Religion" through^him towards 

 the end of January, 1900. Unfortunately he does not add 

 that since then a number of new editions of the "Weltraet- 

 sel" have appeared, in which Haeckel could have explained 

 himself in an honorable manner. Schmidt has therefore 

 not been successful in his attempt to clear up this matter. 

 But how does he settle with Romanes? He says: "We 

 are assured that the thoughts were written down by the 

 English naturalist George John Romanes"; and again: 

 "The thoughts are published by a Canon of Westminster, 

 Charles Gore, to whom they are said to have been handed 

 over after the death of Romanes in the year 1894." Then 

 he has the audacity to place Romanes in quotation marks. 

 And finally he asserts that they would abide by Romanes' 

 former works as their authority, the more so, because 

 these were not, like the "Thoughts," "published and 

 glossed by a Canon only after his (Romanes') death." By 



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