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VOL. XXXV (No. 4)

APRIL, 1921

Copyright by The Open Court Publishing Company, 1921.

NO. 779

THE LEAR-TRAGEDY OF ERNST HAECKEL.

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BY HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER.

"Huxley once said of me, that I was the Bismarck of zoology. I do not know if that be true. But if I am to have the honor of being compared to that great man, it must follow as a natural consequence in my destiny that I too am to be deposed in my old age from my place in the foundation that I have created."

Ernst Haeckel, on Jan. 21, 1910.

RNST Haeckel, the last of the great Darwinians, died on August ninth, 1919. During the days and the weeks following, solemn memorial services took place in halls, schools and groves in Germany. Goethe's invocation to Gott-Natur rolled forth in measured recitative. Requiems were played and chorals were sung. Altars to the immortality of his labors arose, decked in green and black. The benign face of the sage, snow-white of hair and beard, gazed down from countless walls and tribunes upon the throngs that came to do him the last honors as master and as man.

He had gone to his rest in a dark hour. His country's fate oppressed him. But this Luther of Science, one of the last Great Ones of the nineteenth century, had departed, as all men thought. bearing no other burden than the fullness of days, had fallen asleep like a weary king with a crown overheavy with honor, throned on a pyramid of incomparable achievement. He had fought many battles, even with Church and Kaiser in his passionate crusade for scientific truth. But was not his old age beautiful, sunny and serene?

Up to his death few in his own land and perhaps no one among his millions of followers abroad knew of the personal tragedy which had embittered his last years, the grim feud with one whom he had

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