SOURCE: "A Monistic Trinity," in The Dial, Vol. 38, No. 451, April 1, 1905, pp. 232-34.

In the following review of The Wonders of Life, Cockerell critiques Haeckel's account of man's origins, and treats Monism as a form of religious faith.

The veteran professor of Jena gave us to understand that The Riddle of> the Universe, published in 1899, was his last book; but it had such a wide circulation, and raised so many questions, that the author felt obliged to prepare the work now under review [The Wonders of Life]; in order to make clearer his views on biological questions and their relation to the monistic philosophy. Being quite unable to answer the letters—more than five thousand—addressed to him, or to acknowledge adequately the many documents, flowers, and other gifts addressed to him on his seventieth birthday, Professor Haeckel gracefully begs his admirers to receive his new book as an...