Ernst Haeckel
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Sep 11, 2026
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For some time, however, I was unable to find any detailed proof that could consistently be employed to substantiate the correctness of this hypothesis.
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In the year 1885, with no special object in view other than a desire for information, I began a systematized investigation of the facts which at that time had been established by naturalists relative to the development of mankind from lower orders of life.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It was not, however, until the year 1886, after a careful reading of The Descent of Man by Mr. Darwin, that I first became impressed with the belief that the theory of evolution, as enunciated by scientists, furnishes much evidence going to show that the female among all the orders of life, man included, represents a higher stage of development than the male.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Although at the time indicated, the belief that man has descended from lower orders in the scale of being had been accepted by the leading minds both in Europe and America, for reasons which have not been explained, scientists generally seemed inclined to ignore certain facts connected with this theory which tend to prove the superiority of the female organism.
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The ability, however, to collect facts, and the power to generalize and draw conclusions from them, avail little when brought into direct opposition to deeply rooted prejudices.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The indications are strong that the time has at length arrived when the current opinions concerning sex capacity and endowment demand a revision, and when nothing short of scientific deductions, untainted by the prejudices and dogmatic assumptions of the past, will be accepted.
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As has been stated, the object of this volume is to set forth the principal data brought forward by naturalists bearing on the subject of the origin and development of the two lines of sexual demarcation, and by means of the facts observed by explorers among peoples in the various stages of development to trace, so far as possible, the effect of such differentiation upon the individual and upon the subsequent growth of human society.
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ExpatriateNARRATOR
Its researches into the nature of sound and the construction of the ear, the nature of light and the construction of the eye, its measurement of the speed of sensation, its localization of the functions of the brain, and its hints as to the possibility of producing a homunculus presently as the fruit of its chemical investigation of protoplasm have satisfied the souls of our atheists as completely as belief in divine omniscience and scriptural revelation satisfied the souls of their pious fathers.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The fact remains that when Jung, Helmholtz, Darwin, Haeckel, and the rest, popularized here among the literate classes by Tyndall and Huxley, and among the proletariat by the lectures of the National Secular Society, have taught you all they know, you are still as utterly at a loss to explain the fact of consciousness as you would have been in the days when you were instructed from the child's guide to knowledge.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Materialism, in short, only isolated the great mystery of consciousness by clearing away several petty mysteries with which we had confused it, just as rationalism isolated the great mystery of the will to live.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The isolation made both more conspicuous than before.
speaker_15NARRATOR
His synthetic philosophy perhaps did more than anything else to make the idea of evolution familiar in England.
speaker_15NARRATOR
I must mention one other modern explanation of the world, that of Haeckel, the zoologist, professor at Jena, who may be called the prophet of evolution.
speaker_15NARRATOR
His Creation of Man, 1868, covered the same ground as Darwin's Descent, had an enormous circulation, and was translated, I believe, into 14 languages.
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His World Riddles, 1899, enjoys the same popularity.
speaker_15NARRATOR
In fact, he identifies his philosophy with that of Spinoza, and he logically proceeds to conceive material atoms as thinking.
speaker_15NARRATOR
His idea of the physical world is based on the old mechanical conception of matter, which in recent years has been discredited.
speaker_15NARRATOR
But Haeckel's monism, as he called his doctrine, has lately been reshaped, and in its new form promises to exercise wide influence on thoughtful people in Germany.
speaker_15NARRATOR
I will return later to this monistic movement.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
It was applied to the study of all nature, as well as to men and their social institutions, and it disclosed in these branches entirely unknown horizons, giving explanations of facts which hitherto had seemed quite inexplicable.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
Owing to the impulse given by Darwin's work to all natural sciences, biology was created, which, in Herbert Spencer's hands, soon explained to us how the countless forms of living beings inhabiting the earth may have developed and enabled Haeckel to make the first attempt at formulating a genealogy of all animals, man included.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
In the same way, a solid foundation for the history of the development of man's customs, manners, beliefs, and institutions was laid down.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
a history the want of which was strongly felt by the 18th century philosophers and by Auguste Comte.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Its researches into the nature of sound and the construction of the ear, the nature of light and the construction of the eye, its measurement of the speed of sensation, its localization of the functions of the brain, and its hints as to the possibility of producing a homunculus presently as the fruit of its chemical investigation of protoplasm have satisfied the souls of our atheists as completely as belief in divine omniscience and scriptural revelation satisfied the souls of their pious fathers.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The fact remains that when Jung, Helmholtz, Darwin, Haeckel, and the rest, popularized here among the literate classes by Tyndall and Huxley, and among the proletariat by the lectures of the National Secular Society, have taught you all they know, you are still as utterly at a loss to explain the fact of consciousness as you would have been in the days when you were instructed from the child's guide to knowledge.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Materialism, in short, only isolated the great mystery of consciousness by clearing away several petty mysteries with which we had confused it, just as rationalism isolated the great mystery of the will to live.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The isolation made both more conspicuous than before.
Doug LisleHOST
Freud was not alone.
Doug LisleHOST
The whole cohort in the early 20th century and late 19th century, but early 20th century biology, Virtually all biologists believed in a guy named Ernst Haeckel.
Doug LisleHOST
A notion of ontogeny or the development of an adult animal goes through a series of adult prior ancestors and its development.
Doug LisleHOST
So it starts out as a fish and then it looks like a crab and then it looks like this and it looks like that.
speaker_2NARRATOR
These two forces, desire and will, are manifest all through nature.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Haeckel, the German scientist, in his works along the lines of the most advanced scientific thought, tells us that even in the actions of the atoms, there is evident, one, the feeling or desire of attraction or repulsion, and two, the impulse of will responding thereto, causing the action in accordance with the desire.
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It is a universal law, and its evidences may be seen everywhere.
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Desire and will in telementation.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
It was applied to the study of all nature, as well as to men and their social institutions, and it disclosed in these branches entirely unknown horizons, giving explanations of facts which hitherto had seemed quite inexplicable.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
Owing to the impulse given by Darwin's work to all natural sciences, biology was created, which in Herbert Spencer's hands soon explained to us how the countless forms of living beings inhabiting the earth may have developed and enabled Haeckel to make the first attempt at formulating a genealogy of all animals, man included.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
In the same way a solid foundation for the history of the development of man's customs, manners, beliefs, and institutions was laid down.
Amelia ChesleyNARRATOR
A history the want of which was strongly felt by the eighteenth century philosophers and by Auguste Comte.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He was a tiny, nervous man, always suffering from malaria, who had just returned from the coasts of the Red Sea when I made his acquaintance.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A follower of Haeckel, he had worked a great deal upon the marine invertebrates in their life surroundings.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The Geographical Society managed next to get him taken on board a Russian man-of-war to some unknown part of the coast of New Guinea, where he wanted to study the most primitive savages.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Accompanied by one sailor only, he was left on this inhospitable shore, the inhabitants of which had the reputation of being cannibals.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
The manner, on the one hand, is that of a highly skillful and profoundly original artist.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
But on the other hand, it is that of a sophomore just made aware of Haeckel, Bradlaugh, and Nietzsche.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Bennett's unmitigated skepticism explains two things that have constantly puzzled the reviewers, and that have been the cause of a great deal of idiotic writing about him, for him as well as against him.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
One of these things is his utter lack of anything properly describable as artistic conscience, his extreme readiness to play the star houri in the seraglio of the publishers.
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