The riddle of the universe at the close of the nineteenth century / by Ernst Haeckel ; translated by Joseph McCabe.

  • Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919. Welträthsel
Date:
1902
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Credit: The riddle of the universe at the close of the nineteenth century / by Ernst Haeckel ; translated by Joseph McCabe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kew Edition. Companlon Volumes Ready, Part 1. and Part II. of Lady Florence Dixie’s Book, The Songs of a Child. IT CONTAINS THREE COLOURED FÖRTRAlTS. It may be ordcrcd of I^Iessrs. W. H. Smith & Son, i86, Strand, W.C.; J. D. Menzies, Edin- burgh ; or of any olher Boolcseller or Library. Price Five Shillings. Under date June istli, 1902, Mr. Geokcf. J acoh Hoi.y- OAKE wriles : “ Dcar L.idy Klorence. ‘Aliel Aven^ed ' is a .splendid here.sy, splendidly sei fortli. It supplies wtiat Milton omits, and what only a free spirit could conceive, only an intrepid mind could express. The wealth of thouKht in that epic and in the ‘ Sceplic's Defence’ is wonderful.” The l/eralti of the Coleten Age for June .says : “This additional volunie of poeins, wrilten hy l.ady Florence Dixie hetween the ages of twelve and seventecn yc.ars. is a phcnomenal prodiiction for one so young, and it will, apart front llic addilional poems wliicn .are s'ill awailing piihlication, • estalilish her reput.uion as a poet. The ihamatic tr.agedy, entilled ‘ Aliel Ar’enged,’ cvidenccs the d.juhts which orthodox religious leaching produccs in the iiiinds of many childrcn. It reminds one so strongly of Milton’s style and depth of ihought as lo inake one wonder how a girl of fourteen could have heen the au'hör. .‘somc of the poems which arc wiitien in lightcr veiti are very charming and idyllic ; two of the h-st of ihesc are ‘ liefoie the I.ights Collie lif 'and ‘ King Taij.a.' A strong hitniani- tarian nole is .souiidcd in the poem enlitled ‘ A Kanible i I Hell,’ which is an iinpassiuned protest against the iniquities of Vivisection, and denionstrates how early in l.fe the gified aulhorcss bcc.riiie a Champion on the rights ofaniinals.” In a long review of an advance copy of the hook in 7'he Afinostic Journal öi May lotli, “.‘Paladin remaiks in his ' At Random ' sketch :—“ The lyii ' [of the pociii ‘ Saladin ] i.defland musical, Init it is the litlle schouIgiiTs cliieal- rous treatment of liini who was Cliiistendoni s ii ost for- niidahle foe tliat entitles the lines to disiinction. To try a person or a cause by his or its iiilrin.sic nierils, and not in the light of the extrinslc prejudices with which it has come to be encrusted, is, in addition to the function of a poet, the deed of a heroine The child's precocious rejection of religious orthodoxyis recorded in the ambitiousdramatic elTusion, ' Abel Ävenged,’ an earnest and gifted child’s succedaneum for Byron’s ‘Cain.’ The assault upon Orthodoxy, is, of course, delivered not from the critical or historic.al, but from the moral side. The teaching of the Cluircli is impugned on the ground of its incompatibility with truth and juslice, and—nobly char,acterLstic of the wriler—for its disreg.ard of the sufferings of sentient creatires... .Any rc.alTy educated lady of rank and fortune can secretly hold unpopulär tenets, but it takes a Douglas to avow theni. 'X'he volume here is of gold.” The IhimfricsStandard, under date June 281h, says:— “ Thc.se poeins exhihit a degree of intellectual daring and malurity of speculative thought in the realms of rcligion and inorals that are ainazing, and a' literary talent hardly less so. In ‘Abel Avenged ’ one rcads with a feeling of astonishment the inexorable direetness of the child's logic a id ilie skill with which she discharges her function of criiic in the aclion of a dr.ama.” Tlf Northern IFeeify o( Jtily ipth remarks : Songs 0/a .sliows a passionate love of Nature, high ideals and a noble longing for truth, and sympalhy with all living things....‘A Kamille in Hell’yoii cannot forget once you have read it. tady Florence h.as fronted the riddle of the uiiiverse in many poems .and asked quesiions that are daring and helerodox. ‘ The Sceptie’s Defence’ is full of quesiions pronipted by the niystery and the misery of the World. ' Abel Avenged ’ is aniazing as the production of one so young.” New Book by Lady Florence Dixie. Ready Immediately. The Story of Ijain: Or, The Evolution of a Mind. IVITH COLOURED PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATION. n maybeordered through l\ressr.s. W. H. Smith & Son, i86, Strand, London, W.C; or Messrs. J. D. Menzies, Edinburgh ; or through any Bookseller. Price Five Shillings. :r man, you are oflering the very Service to God that od born of a noble and spiritual ideal rvould niost yaccept. Ijain'sle.ssonis, HelpMan,and;ifit so P'cas« :all it worshipping God. The niost divine of all the 'S attributed to the Nazarene is, in reg.ird to a ’, hclpful deed, ‘ In.asmuch as ye have donc it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Street, E.C.; Messrs. Charles Scribneb York.