# Haeckel

Author: Bölsche, Wilhelm, 1861-1939; McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70451

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Haeckel+B%C3%B6lsche&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

One of the admirable maxims that crystallises the better sense or experience of men reminds us that we must “say nothing but good of the dead.” Unhappily, we have taken the words of our sage fathers in too large a sense. A feeling has grown amongst us that we should “say nothing good except of the dead,” at least as regards those who differ from us. So has many a man gone from the world with little suspicion of the appreciation that might have warmed him in the last chill years; many a man sunk into the grave with the harsh echo of dishonouring words still rumbling in his ears. It may be that our ideas, our truths, would not suffer greatly if we could patiently endeavour to trace the comm...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/haeckel-70451/chapters/1/index.md)