iSo LOUIS AGASSIZ. [CHAP. xxi. 



he spoke openly of his sympathies and ardent feeling 

 for a people which had rescued his native Canton de 

 Vaud from Bernese tyranny and bondage, and is of the 

 same Latin race, using the same language, - - the lan- 

 guage of Jean Jacques Rousseau, de La Harpe, Jomini, 

 and Madame de Stael, and in which his own works on 

 the " Poissons fossiles " and on the glaciers were writ- 

 ten. The crisis brought up by the fall of France, 

 added to old age, made him, by a sort of irresistible 

 tendency, return naturally to the feelings of youth and 

 of childhood, while those of middle age disappeared, 

 and after 1871 Agassiz was more French than myself, 

 at least in his feeling about the future of France. 



