Haeckel, his life and work,

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p. 18 What Goethe had seen in vision rises before him now in sharp, almost hard outline from his own real life-work. He has succeeded in bringing nature and its forces to his feet, because it was flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood. He is its child…. P. 26: On the table lay the latest part of Haeckel's (her nephew) fine illustrated work for artistically minded scientists and scientifically minded artists the Art-forms in Nature. The dear old ladyp. 27: described in HaeckeFs splendid monograph, the flinty shells of which are amongst the finest artistic treasures of nature. She called them the " dear radiolaria " with all the tenderness of the emotional man of science who had felt a sort of psychic relation, a living affinity, to the tiny microscopic strangers he had been the first to arrange and describe in their thousands.