means of all this and of a comparison with the ''Letters of 

 the Obscurantists'' he wishes to create the suspicion that 

 there might be question here of forgery. Such an insinua- 

 tion, (I employ Schmidt's own words) "cannot be charac- 

 terized otherwise than as contemptible." "Here it is even 

 worse than contemptible." I must beg my reader's pardon 

 for overstepping the bounds of reserve with these caustic 

 words, although they originated with Schmidt; but really 

 the flush of anger rightfully mounts to one's cheeks when a 

 man, from the mere fact that he is a disciple of the "great" 

 Haeckel assumes the right to charge Canon Gore and in- 

 directly myself with forgery. It is really very significant 

 that these men should have to resort to such base and des- 

 picable expedients to extricate themselves from their un- 

 pleasant predicament. Apart from this, it was very amus- 

 ing to me personally to think that for the sake of my un- 

 worthy self, Schmidt should have borrowed from his lord 

 and master the epithet "pious," which Haeckel in his turn 

 has drawn from his cherished friend Dodel. In all proba- 

 bility they will continue to hawk it about in order to bring 

 me into disrepute with the rest of their kind. The few re- 

 marks Schmidt still finds it proper to make regarding the 

 "Thoughts," betray his inabiUty to understand the book. 

 But as I stated in the preface it was a difficult book to read 

 and understand. It is obviously not reading matter for 

 shallow minds. I refer Schmidt to the biography of Ro- 

 manes, published by his wife, (The Life and Letters of G. 

 J. Romanes, London, Longmans, Green&Co., 1898), where 

 he will find Romanes' religious development described by a 



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