Hodge, C. W. (1895). Review of Monism as Connecting Religion and Science. [Review of the book Monism as Connecting Religion and Science. E. Haeckel]. Psychological Review, 2(6), 611-612.
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Reviews Monism as Connecting Religion and Science by Ernst Haeckel (1894). This address, delivered by the author at Altenburg on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 'Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Oesterlandes,' sets forth a naturalistic Pantheism. It states in clear terms a monistic theory of the universe construed in a naturalistic manner. By Monism is meant "that there lives one spirit in all things, and that the whole cognizable world is constituted and has been developed in accordance with one common fundamental law." The author lays emphasis on the essential unity of inorganic and organic nature; the latter, he claims, having developed from the former at a comparatively late period, there being no absolute distinction between them any more than between animal and man. The author then speaks of human knowledge, saying: "Similarly we regard the whole of human knowledge as a structural unity; in this sphere we refuse to accept the distinction usually drawn between the natural and the spiritual. The latter is only a part of the former (or vice versa); both are one." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)