The Evolution of Man, vol 1, Ernst Haeckel [books to read this summer TXT] 📗

years ago, a distinguishedbiologist wrote in the Frankfurter Zeitung that it would secureimmortality for its author, the most notable critic of the idea ofimmortality. And the Daily Telegraph reviewer described the Englishversion as a "handsome edition of Haeckel's monumental work," and "anissue worthy of the subject and the author."

The influence of such a work, one of the most constructive thatHaeckel has ever written, should extend to more than the few hundredreaders who are able to purchase the expensive volumes of the originalissue. Few pages in the story of science are more arresting andgenerally instructive than this great picture of "mankind in themaking." The horizon of the mind is healthily expanded as we followthe search-light of science down the vast avenues of past time, andgaze on the uncouth forms that enter into, or illustrate, the line ofour ancestry. And if the imagination recoils from the strange andremote figures that are lit up by our search-light, and hesitates toaccep