us only a greatly changed picture of the phylogenetic (i. e., 

 genealogical) stages as they may once have existed in 

 primitive ages, but do not correspond to them in their actu- 

 al content." This is a very resigned position, very far 

 removed from Haeckel's certainty and orthodoxy. 



To sum up: O. Hertwig has become a serious heretic 

 in matters Darwinian. Will Haeckel, in his usual manner 

 try to cast suspicion on Hertwig also? For Haeckel himself 

 says (Free Science and Free Doctrine, Stuttgart, 1878, p. 

 85): "Since I am not bound by fear to the Berlin Tribunal 

 of Science or by anxieties regarding the loss of influential 

 Berlin connections, as are most of my like-minded col- 

 leagues, I do not hesitate here as elsewhere to express my 

 honest conviction, frankly and freely, regardless of the an- 

 ger which perhaps real or pretended privy councillors in 

 Berlin njay feel upon hearing the unadorned truth." 



Verily, it is a matter of suspense to know whether his 

 &chool will now pour forth their wrath upon O. Hertwig, 

 or whether finally the discovery will not be made in Jena 

 that Hertwig secretly possessed himself of his position in 

 Berlin, in the sarne manner as Flejschmann obtained his 

 at Erlangen, viz., by a promise pf desertion from Darwin- 

 ism. 



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