[German Version]

The German Monist League was founded in Jena in 1906 under the influence of zoologist E. Haeckel. Haeckel helped C. Darwin's theory of evolution (Evolution: I) to become accepted as a worldview in Germany; he wrote about Monism as a link between religion and science (1892). His philosophy-of-nature book Die Welträtsel (ET: The Riddle of the Universe) became a bestseller in 1900 and stimulated the formation of the first Monist society in 1903. Out of this grew the Monist League, with a more fixed organizational structure. Its first pres…