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Ticknor, Motley, arid Holmes also arise most 

 naturally, for the literary men and scholars of 

 Cambridge and Boston were closely united; 

 and if Emerson, in his country home at Con- 

 cord, was a little more withdrawn, his influ- 

 ence was powerful in the intellectual life of 

 the whole community, and acquaintance read- 

 ily grew to friendship between him and Agas- 

 siz. Such was the pleasant and cultivated 

 circle into which Agassiz was welcomed in 

 the two cities, which became almost equally 

 his home, and where the friendships he made 

 gradually transformed exile into household 

 life and ties. 



In Cambridge he soon took his share in giv- 

 ing as well as receiving hospitalities, and his 

 Saturday evenings were not the less attractive 

 because of the foreign character and some- 



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what unwonted combination of the house- 

 hold. Over its domestic comforts now presided 

 an old Swiss clergyman, Monsieur Christinat. 

 He had been attached to Agassiz from child- 

 hood, had taken the deepest interest in his 

 whole career, and, as we have seen, had assisted 

 him to complete his earlier studies. Now, un- 

 der the disturbed condition of things at home, 

 he had thrown in his lot with him in Amer- 

 ica. " If your old friend," he writes, " can live 



