well-informed hand. This development began as early as 

 1878, hence during the time of his intimate friendship with 

 Darwin. In this book on pages 372 and 378 Schmidt will also 

 find the words in which, before his death, Romanes begged 

 that, if he were personally unable to publish the 

 "Thoughts," they should be given to his friend Canon 

 Gore after his own death. But why waste so many words on 

 Mr. Schmidt, for since all these things must be doubly disa- 

 greeable and painful to him and Haeckel, he will very 

 probably resort without delay to personal insinuation arid 

 accuse Mrs. Romanes of forgery. 



To us, however, who thoroughly appreciate the situa- 

 tion, it is a matter of great moment that of one of the few 

 really eminent naturalists, to whom Haeckel thought to be 

 able to lay full and exclusive claim, for the last twenty years 

 of his life should have been moving towards the Christian 

 faith in his eager search for truth and should die not a mon- 

 ist, but a convinced Christian. Neither did he die an old man, 

 to whom the adherents of monism would certainly have the 

 effrontery to impute feeble-mindedness, but at the early 

 age of forty-six years. Nor was his a sudden deathbed 

 conversion — an impression which Schmidt attempts to cre- 

 ate (p. 62) in order to be able with H. Heine to relegate 

 the conversion to the domain of pathology — but followed 

 after many years of diligent and honest study and research. 

 The other point of which we must treat here, is the man- 

 ner in which, after the example of Dr. Reh, Schriiidt at- 

 tempts in the "Umschau" to exonerate Haeckel in the 



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