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consideration, because ii is in the spirit 

 there expressed thai The Agassiz A 

 ciatii »n has alwa) s existed. \\ e are per- 

 petuating thai name. 



"And one name forevermore 

 Shall be uttered o'er and i 

 l'.\ tin- waves that kiss tin- shore, 

 the curfew 's whistle sent 



I '■ iw .iir; 



In ;ill known to her, 



nuns her worshipper, 

 I lalt' in triumph, half lament. 

 Thither I 1 1\ e -hall tearful turn. 



i|> pause u '1 there, 



And tl learn 



From the Master's silent prayer." 



Presidenl David Starr Jordan of the 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 California, was a pupil in thai school at 

 Penikese and is at the present Dean of 

 The Council and member of the Board 

 of I rustees of The Agassiz Association. 

 Me is continuing faithfully in the en- 

 thusiasm and spirit of Louis Agassiz. 



It was only a year after Louis Agas- 

 si/.'s death that The Agassiz Associa- 

 tion was - rganized, and in its handbook 

 the first President, .Mr. II. II. Ballard, 

 who >:ill continues as a member of the 

 Trustee-, wrote as follows: 



"Wha'. after all. is our purpose in 

 studying Mature? Is it to gel for our- 

 i' uis of rare and beautiful 

 objects? Is it to amuse us during our 

 leisure 1 ours? Is it to train our powers 

 ot observation and strengthen our 

 minds by il discipline? Is it to 



hirst \> 'i" km iwledge. 

 and to become familiar with ad the little 



adside and the wood ? 

 It is all this, hut it should be much 

 more. We ought to be learning the 

 grand ami solemn lesson that a Divine 

 mind is showing its wisdom in every 

 leaf and pebble, and dial a I >n ine h 

 i~ expi u- io\ e in every raindrop 



and in every flow This was the 



truth that filled the heart of him for 

 whom our Association is named — this 

 was the secret of this untiring zeal, and 

 the key to his deep love of Nature." 



The principles of Christ the Natural- 

 ist and a knowledge of a deity that 

 forms all things, have always been 

 important factors in The Agassiz Asso- 

 ciation, and have had thousands of sup- 

 porters and loyal followers who have 



bravely carried forward Louis Agassiz's 

 banner. 



But we have also had opposition, in- 

 tense, atheistic opposition. It has come 

 from a greal variety of sources, and 

 there are plenty of people in existence. 





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thoroughly devoted to science but who 

 would be delighted to see The Agassiz 

 Association perish from the face of the 

 earth. If you have the slightest doubt 

 about this, read the following letters 

 written in the Christmas season by a 

 grand master of biology in the atheistic 

 school of science. The writer is gener- 

 ally recognized as one of the ablest 

 ogists of this country, or perhaps of 

 an}- country. He is at the head of the 

 department of zoology in a great uni- 

 versity, and has for years been the 

 director of a large biological laboratory. 

 To that laboratory come representatives 

 of many colleges and universities who 

 are diligent students of nature. We do 

 not, for a moment, mean to imply that 

 all who go there are in accord with the 

 director's religious ideas, because opin- 

 ions vary there as everywhere else. 

 Read his letters as follows: 



