Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 53639-h.htm or 53639-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53639/53639-h/53639-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53639/53639-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/lastwordsonevolu00haeciala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). More details of transcription can be found at the end of the book. LAST WORDS ON EVOLUTION [Illustration: Bräunlich & Tesch (Emil Tesch), Hofphot. Jena. Published by A. Owen & Co., London. Ernst Haeckel.] LAST WORDS ON EVOLUTION A Popular Retrospect and Summary by ERNST HAECKEL Professor at Jena University Translated from the Second Edition by Joseph McCabe With Portrait and Three Plates London A. Owen & Co. 28 Regent Street, S.W. 1906 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 PREFACE 11 CHAPTER I THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT CREATION Evolution and Dogma 15 PLATE I.--Genealogical Tree of the Vertebrates 17 CHAPTER II THE STRUGGLE OVER OUR GENEALOGICAL TREE Our Ape-Relatives and the Vertebrate-Stem 49 PLATE II.--Skeletons of Five Anthropoid Apes 51 CHAPTER III THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE SOUL The Ideas of Immortality and God 83 PLATE III.--Embryos of Three Mammals 85 APPENDIX EVOLUTIONARY TABLES Geological Ages and Periods 115 Man's Genealogical Tree--_First Half_ 116 Man's Genealogical Tree--_Second Half_ 117 Classification of the Primates 118 Genealogical Tree of the Primates 119 Explanation of Genealogical Table 1. 120 POSTSCRIPT Evolution and Jesuitism 121 INTRODUCTION