Cajal on the cerebral cortex: an annotated translation of the complete writings

overdue. Relying on highly selective published extracts from Haeckel's archive is unsatisfactory because of the biases of various editors. Use of Haeckel's extensive correspondence and other materials, such as newspaper clippings, would have given Sandmann the opportunity of locating Haeckel in the changing socio-political context of Imperial Germany, as bourgeois opinion shifted from liberalism to support for a strong imperial state.