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natural thread for our narrative. With this crisis 

 his activity broadens out more. His ideas, almost 

 all of which are presented in the General Morph- 

 ologij^ form a great and continuous stem, which 

 throws out a large or a small flower on one side or 

 other, according to the stimulus received. His life 

 crystallises about Jena ; however many journeys 

 he makes, he always feels that he will return to his 

 centre at Jena. Nothing in his later career ever 

 shook him from this ideal and personal base. 



In the summer after his return to Jena, 1867, 

 he married Agnes Huschke, daughter of the dis- 

 tinguished Jena anatomist. He shares the 

 happiness of this second marriage down to the 

 present day. Of their three children, the son is 

 now a gifted artist at Munich ; the elder daughter 

 is the wife of Professor Hans Meyer, proprietor of 

 the Leipsic Bibliographical Institute, who is par- 

 ticularly known in science by his ascent of the 

 Kilimandschars ; the younger daughter is still at 

 home with her parents. 



He never leaves the University of Jena — and it 

 never abandons him. It is a kind of spiritual 

 marriage. In 1865, when the sky was still free 

 from clouds, he was invited to take a position at 

 Wurt^burg, his old school-place. He declined the 

 invitation, and was then appointed ordinary pro- 

 fessor at Jena. Then the evil days came. The 

 conclusions of his Morphology were popularised by 

 himself, and went out far and wide amongst the 

 masses. People opened their eyes to find that this 

 audacious scientist was making '' war upon God " 



