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)ination, there should be no thoughit contained an important element of truth.12 Now, after the lapse
of years, Virchow claims that such theories should not be taught to
!e, reminiscent of Polanyi'S students.
_tted that faith has its place With some justice, Haeckel lays emphasis on Virchow's ignorance of
deT Wissenschaft ein gewisses morphology, especially so far as the lower animals are concerned, and does
lg10n there were three parts- not hesitate to agree with the latter's confession of the limitations of his
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to the public as doctrines. He to assume that the rest of the skeleton was mammalian. Virchow, however,
a that man had animal ances一 to be consistent, must suppose that in these remarkable creatures the only
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nore ape-like than the most Haeckel uses his M1 capacity as a polemical writer to attack Virchow'S
suggestion that the doctrine of evolution has some connection with social-
that scientists would receive ism. Virchow's vague remarks on this subject are interpreted by Haeckel
ld support in whatever direcI as meaning that the horrors of the Paris Commune of 1871 were somehow
s speech made a profound to be regarded as a consequence of the spread of Darwin's ideas. Haeckel
lrOughOut Germany. points out with some effect that the reverse is true ; that Darwinism could
:leaf distinction between die be used, on the contrary, to support aristocratic regimes. Socialists, he says,
t加enschaftlichen Lehre. The should try to stifle the doctrine, for its teaches that inequality is essential to
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tneralization, Omnis cellula e general proposition in Virchow's address,and is surprised that it should
it was not universally valid, have been so unfavourably received by some.
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