Title: The Teleo-Mechanics Of Nature or The Source, Nature and Functions of the Subconscious (Biologic) Minds [Cell-Souls] from Scientific, Religious, Political and Medical Viewpoints. An Answer to Prof. Ernst Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Henry Drummond's The Ascent of Man, and M. Alfred Binet's The Psychic Life of the Micro-Organisms
Author: Hermann Wettstein
Description: Card covers show toning around edges and have some minor soiling. Frontispiece portrait of the author has a dampstain in the fore-edge margin, else interior is generally clean. pp. x, [11]-293.
A response to Ernst Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Henry Drummond's The Ascent of Man, and M. Alfred Binet's The Psychic Life of the Micro-Organisms in which the author discusses the place of the psychic/vito-energy or soul-life in the development of organisms. Also included are the author's critique of Prohibition and vaccination (in chapters 92-94).
Hermann Wettstein (1840-1937) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848. He was a watchmaker and jeweler by trade. In 1900 he was a resident of Fitzgerald, Georgia, and by 1913 had relocated to San Francisco, where he resided until his death.
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Publisher: Fitzgerald Publishing Company
Place: Fitzgerald, Georgia
Year: 1911
Keywords: biology, Ernst Haeckel, ontogeny, natural science, evolution, world riddle, Riddle of the Universe,