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

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Written: late in 1904
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th Edition, Moscow, 1976, Volume 38, page 56
Publisher: Progress Publishers
First Published: 1961 in Collected Works, Volume 38
Translated: Clemence Dutt
Edited: Stewart Smith
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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 inMaterialism and Empirio-Criticism.

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

First morning edition

A Feuilleton on New Biological Books

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).