Seen in Germany . uages, reaching its fourthedition in English. It is a wonderfully illuminativeand conclusive book to one who would understandthe theory of development as applied to the descentof man from the lower forms of animal life, and thisin the face of the fact that many people will not agreewith Professor Haeckel in his conclusions as to reli-gious faith. Then there are his monumental workson the radiolaria, on the sponges and corals, on themedusae and siphonophorae, the five huge volumes ofreports on the Challenger expedition, and his new(1896) Systematic Phylogeny, which he regards
Seen in Germany . uages, reaching its fourthedition in English. It is a wonderfully illuminativeand conclusive book to one who would understandthe theory of development as applied to the descentof man from the lower forms of animal life, and thisin the face of the fact that many people will not agreewith Professor Haeckel in his conclusions as to reli-gious faith. Then there are his monumental workson the radiolaria, on the sponges and corals, on themedusae and siphonophorae, the five huge volumes ofreports on the Challenger expedition, and his new(1896) Systematic Phylogeny, which he regards ashis last and most important contribution to comprehends in three volumes on an immense scalea systematic arrangement of the vegetable and animalworlds, living and extinct, on the basis of the theoryof evolution, with man at the top and with the low-est, non-nucleated cell at the bottom. Haeckel haswritten a book of travel, relating his experiences ina voyage to Ceylon — a fascinating book it is too,. Haeckel at his Microscope 142 Seen in Germany and of such popular interest that it has had twotranslations into English and has run through apaper-covered edition in Anierica. His last book,the Die Weltrathsel (World-Riddles), which ap-peared in 1899, has had an unusual sale for a book,of science. In its German edition it is a thickoctavo volume of several hundred pages, and yet itwas written complete in two months. ProfessorHaeckels methods of writing this volume will per-haps explain why he has been able to accomplish somuch. During all of the two months while he wasat work he reached his desk at six oclock everymorning, and he wrote steadily, with a short inter-mission for dinner, until eight oclock in the that time he was secluded in his laboratory,he wrote no letters and saw no visitors, it beingunderstood that he was on a vacation in Italy. One can accomplish much in forty years, hesays. Another thing that impresses one who comes toknow Professor
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