Ernst Haeckel ~ "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"

Recapitulation theory

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Haeckel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel always insisted that his pantheism was mechanistic and deterministic, because he considered spirit just another name for energy, which was subject to natural laws. According to Todd Weir, Haeckel defined “God as the summation of the law of causation.” He staunchly fought against all mystical conceptions of pantheism or monism. At the 1913 meeting of the German Monist League, he presented a lecture (in absentia) on “Monism and Mysticism” www.gutenberg.org/files/9199/9199-h/9199-h.htm that directly combated mysticism of every sort, including Hartmann’s mystical pantheism, vitalism and occultism. Everything in the cosmos is subject to the laws of physics, he asserted -- During the Nazi period, some scholars and government officials dismissed Haeckel’s monism as materialistic. However, many other defended him against the accusation of materialism by pointing to his pantheism. Indeed, one of Hitler’s contemporaries, the political theorist Eric Voeglin, noticed the resemblance between Haeckel’s and Hitler’s religious views, stating “Hitler’s ideas on religion were those of relatively primitive monism, approximately corresponding to Haeckel’s ‘Weltrastel’ at the turn of the century. ~ Page 202

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