Transcriber's Note:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully aspossible, including inconsistencies in hyphenation. It seems thatthe italic typeface used in this book did not have an ae ligature.Names of genera and higher taxonomic groups are not capitalized inthe printed book: they have bee left unchanged. Some changes havebeen made. They are listed at the end of the text.

THERIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE

ERNST HAECKEL

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THE RIDDLE
OF THE UNIVERSE

AT THE CLOSE OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

BY

ERNST HAECKEL
(Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., and Professor at theUniversity of Jena)

AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF CREATION”
“THE EVOLUTION OF MAN” ETC.

TRANSLATED BY

JOSEPH McCABE

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1905

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Copyright, 1900, by Harper & Brothers.


All rights reserved.


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CONTENTS

PAGE
Author’s Prefacev
Translator’s Prefacexi

CHAPTER I

The Nature of the Problem
1

CHAPTER II

Our Bodily Frame
22

CHAPTER III

Our Life
39

CHAPTER IV

Our Embryonic Development
53

CHAPTER V

The History of our Species
71

CHAPTER VI

The Nature of the Soul
88

CHAPTER VII

Psychic Gradations
108

CHAPTER VIII

The Embryology of the Soul
132

CHAPTER IX

The Phylogeny of the Soul
...

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