56 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



largest income, most professors would be 

 discouraged long before thirteen years 

 were up ; but Agassiz never was one to 

 be carked by cares. Where there is one 

 and only one chief object, there is at 

 least no wearing contest for the right of 

 way, and by so much is the man nearer 

 success. Whether he could afford it or 

 not, whether the money had been paid 

 or not, whether the deluge was coming 

 or not, the main object was accom- 

 plished. The apparatus was there, the 

 books were written, the lithographs were 

 given to the world 5 and other matters 

 were trifling in comparison. 



The careless poverty which was so 

 picturesque in the student of Munich, 

 breakfasting off a glass of beer in order 

 to keep two draughtsmen busy among the 

 fishes who shared his bedroom, is per- 

 haps more open to criticism in the older 

 professor of NeucMtel, with a dignified 

 position to maintain, and a wife and 

 children besides. As soon as Agassiz 7 s 



