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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  And 
  now 
  we 
  say, 
  goodbye! 
  The 
  form 
  we 
  knew 
  and 
  called 
  by 
  his 
  name 
  

   will 
  soon 
  fade 
  away 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  effacing 
  fingers 
  of 
  decay 
  can 
  never 
  mar 
  the 
  record 
  

   of 
  bis 
  noble 
  life. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  conclusion 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Stearns' 
  paper, 
  Br. 
  Carr 
  remarked 
  as 
  

   follows 
  : 
  

  

  Yes, 
  Mr. 
  President, 
  Agassiz 
  is 
  not 
  dead. 
  He 
  has 
  gone 
  to 
  sit 
  with 
  Hum- 
  

   boldt 
  and 
  Cuvier, 
  with 
  Plato 
  and 
  Aristotle, 
  among 
  the 
  stars 
  ; 
  the 
  voice 
  of 
  

   humanity, 
  echoing 
  down 
  the 
  corridors 
  of 
  time, 
  and 
  gathering 
  fullness 
  through 
  

   the 
  coming 
  ages, 
  will 
  ever 
  proclaim 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  a 
  love 
  of 
  knowledge 
  endures 
  — 
  

   Agassiz 
  still 
  lives. 
  

  

  Remarks 
  of 
  Kev. 
  Dr. 
  Horatio 
  Stebbins. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  President, 
  Ladies 
  and 
  Gentlemen 
  : 
  It 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  appropriate 
  to 
  

   me 
  in 
  this 
  presence, 
  and 
  after 
  what 
  has 
  been 
  said 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  preceded 
  

   me, 
  to 
  undertake 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  resume 
  of 
  Agassiz' 
  scientific 
  thought, 
  or 
  to 
  sketch 
  

   his 
  career 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  interpreters 
  of 
  Nature's 
  law 
  ; 
  but 
  while 
  I 
  have 
  

   been 
  sitting 
  here 
  listening 
  to 
  the 
  words 
  of 
  others, 
  and 
  looking 
  into 
  your 
  faces, 
  

   I 
  have 
  been 
  impressed 
  anew 
  by 
  that 
  cheerful, 
  harmonious 
  accord 
  of 
  reason, 
  in- 
  

   telligence, 
  and 
  all 
  magnanimous 
  sentiments 
  with 
  which 
  we 
  acknowledge 
  human 
  

   greatness. 
  With 
  what 
  refreshing 
  admiration 
  — 
  with 
  what 
  proud, 
  grateful, 
  sym- 
  

   pathizing 
  joy 
  do 
  we 
  stand 
  on 
  these 
  level 
  plains 
  of 
  existence 
  and 
  look 
  up 
  to 
  those 
  

   vast 
  mountain 
  ranges 
  whose 
  solitary 
  summits 
  attest 
  man's 
  intellectual 
  and 
  moral 
  

   grandeur, 
  and 
  the 
  permanence 
  of 
  truth 
  ! 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  felicity 
  of 
  the 
  scientific 
  man, 
  

   that 
  the 
  truth 
  he 
  seeks 
  is 
  cosmopolitan. 
  It 
  knows 
  not 
  state 
  or 
  nation, 
  tribe 
  or 
  

   race, 
  but 
  is 
  world-truth 
  and 
  world-law. 
  The 
  distinguished 
  representatives 
  of 
  that 
  

   truth 
  have 
  a 
  clear 
  atmosphere, 
  and 
  if 
  their 
  moral 
  nature 
  is 
  strong 
  enough 
  to 
  

   sustain 
  itself 
  in 
  those 
  rarified 
  heights, 
  they 
  lead 
  a 
  life 
  of 
  singular 
  dignity 
  and 
  free- 
  

   dom, 
  their 
  minds 
  dashed 
  with 
  no 
  color 
  of 
  prejudice 
  or 
  passion 
  — 
  seeking 
  what 
  is. 
  

   To 
  know 
  what 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  world 
  of 
  things, 
  is 
  the 
  vocation 
  of 
  the 
  man 
  of 
  science. 
  

   His 
  reputation 
  is 
  the 
  reputation 
  of 
  truth, 
  strong 
  and 
  still 
  as 
  the 
  sun 
  ; 
  and 
  his 
  

   name 
  is 
  the 
  property 
  of 
  mankind. 
  In 
  the 
  enthusiasm 
  of 
  admiring 
  grief, 
  we 
  

   accord 
  to 
  our 
  late 
  illustrious 
  fellow-citizen 
  and 
  cosmopolite 
  such 
  a 
  place 
  and 
  

   such 
  a 
  name. 
  

  

  Far 
  back, 
  ascending 
  the 
  centuries, 
  in 
  the 
  very 
  horizon 
  of 
  man's 
  intellectual 
  

   history, 
  is 
  Aristotle, 
  in 
  whose 
  mind 
  the 
  seeds 
  of 
  the 
  universe 
  were 
  planted, 
  who 
  

   compassed 
  all 
  the 
  knowledge 
  of 
  his 
  time, 
  and 
  gave 
  the 
  hint 
  to 
  future 
  ages. 
  Two 
  

   thousand 
  years 
  later 
  is 
  Humboldt, 
  who, 
  with 
  matchless 
  wonder 
  of 
  comprehen- 
  

   sion 
  and 
  penetration 
  — 
  with 
  a 
  persistency 
  of 
  purpose 
  and 
  idea, 
  pursued, 
  without 
  

   a 
  parallel 
  in 
  the 
  life 
  of 
  man, 
  through 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  nearly 
  seventy 
  years 
  of 
  original 
  

   research 
  — 
  constructed 
  a 
  " 
  Cosmos," 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  things, 
  which 
  

   is 
  perhaps 
  the 
  source 
  of 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  modern 
  time 
  than 
  has 
  

   come 
  from 
  any 
  other 
  single 
  mind. 
  In 
  our 
  own 
  time, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  near 
  distance 
  of 
  

  

  