DER TELEOLOG "Welche Verehrung verdient der Weltenschoepfer der gnaedig. Als er den Korkbaum schuf, gleich auch die Stoepfel erfand." XENIEN. In complying with the wish of the publishers of Professor Haeckel's reply to Professor Virchow, that I should furnish a prefatory note expressing my own opinion in respect of the subject-matter of the controversy, Gay's homely lines, prophetic of the fate of those "who in quarrels interpose," emerge from some brain-cupboard in which they have been hidden since my childish days. In fact, the hard-hitting with which both the attack and the defence abound, makes me think with a shudder upon the probable sufferings of the unhappy man whose intervention sh…
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