84 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



A second course on "Glaciers" was 

 promptly secured by private subscrip- 

 tion, and Agassiz then came into great 

 demand as a popular lecturer in all 

 the Eastern cities. Boston, New York, 

 Albany, Philadelphia, Charleston, are 

 only a few of the places where he was 

 heard. He always chose very broad 

 subjects for popular lectures, making 

 the untrained public free of great gen- 

 eralisations with such velvet ease that 

 only other scholars saw the iron scholar- 

 ship beneath and knew the volumes of 

 debate summed up in one judicious sen- 

 tence. By stripping away all superflu- 

 ous details, he made the central interest 

 show for itself, and could stimulate the 

 most sluggish minds to curiosity by 

 glimpses at all that was yet to be dis- 

 covered. 



"Persuasion fondled in his look and 

 tone," 



says the ode which we have already 

 quoted. 



