Note on a Review of The Wonders of Life and The Riddle of the Universe by E. Haeckel

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Written late in 1904 · page 56 · First published 1961 in Collected Works, Volume 38 · Translated by Clemence Dutt

Note on a Feuilleton in the newspaper “Frankfurter Zeitung” of November 15, 1904, which comments on two books by E. Haeckel—Lebenswunder(Gemeinverständliche Studien über biologische Philosophie) [The Wonders of Life (Elementary Studies in Biological Philosophy)], Stuttgart (Alfred Kröner) and Welträtsel (The Riddle of the Universe)—was written on a separate sheet, which also contained a list of a number of foreign books on the agrarian question. The entry was made at the end of 1904. Lenin gave an evaluation of The Riddle of the Universe by E. Haeckel in Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.

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Frankfurter Zeitung, 1904, No. 348 (December 15)

First morning edition

A Feuilleton on New Biological Books

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Ernst Haeckel: Lebenswunder (Gemeinverständliche Studien über biologische Philosophie). Stuttgart. (Alfred Kröner.)

(To Haeckel, “the spirit is a physiological function of the cerebral cortex.” P. 378 of his book. To be sure, the reviewer is against this opinion.)

Welträtseln by the same author ((published earlier)) (in which it is demonstrated that, properly speaking, there are no world riddles).