Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 30: Devoted to the Philosophy of Science Applying the results of embryology, with special em phasis on the biogenetic law, also to anthropology, he made the difficult attempt, obeying his passionate desire for ulti mate conclusions, to outline the developmental history of the whole organic world and wrote a Natural History of Creation which appeared in 1868. Being of a popular nature, it went through many editions and was translated into at least fifteen foreign languages. This was followed in 1874 by a more scientific work on Anthropogeny, or the evolution of man proper. These books were discussed for years with extreme animation, but when after the lapse of almost a quarter of a century Haeckel gave a summary On Our Present Knowledge of the Origin of Man at the International Congress of Zoologists at Cambridge in 1898, he met with entire accord from this forum of international science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.