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Professor Huxley, in his review of this work 

 of Haeckel, already quoted, says : " I do not 

 like to conclude without reminding the reader 

 of my entire concurrence with the general 

 tenor and spirit of the work, and of my high 

 estimate of its value." If you take out of 

 Haeckel's book its doctrine of Monism, which 

 he himself says means Materialism, it has no 

 "tenor or spirit" in it. It is not, however, 

 for us to say how far Professor Huxley in- 

 tended his indorsement to go. 



Haeckel says that Darwin's theory of evolu- 

 tion leads inevitably to Atheism and Material- 

 ism. In this we think he is correct. But we 

 have nothing to do with Haeckel's logic or 

 with our own. We make no charge against 

 Mr. Darwin. We cite Haeckel merely as a wit- 

 ness to the fact that Darwinism involves the 

 denial of final causes ; that it excludes all intel- 

 ligent design in the production of the organs 

 of plants and animals, and even in the produc- 

 tion of the soul and body of man. This first 

 of German naturalists would occupy a strange 

 position in the sight of all Europe, if, after 

 lauding a book to the skies because it teaches 

 a certain doctrine, it should turn out that the 

 book taught no such doctrine at all. 



