LOUIS AGASSIZ 85 



"Then how the heat through every 



fibre ran, 

 Felt in the gathering presence of the 



man, 

 While the apt word and gesture came 



unbid!" 



It was his own unfeigned delight in 

 what he had to tell that carried captive 

 every meeting he addressed. 



Several of Agassiz's fellow-workers 

 had either accompanied or followed him 

 to America, and in a short time he had 

 rallied friends enough to re-establish the 

 " scientific factory " in East Boston in- 

 stead of !N"euch4tel. Afterward its site 

 was changed to Cambridge. An atmos- 

 phere of enthusiasm, of happiness in 

 opportunity and delight in achievement, 

 enveloped Agassiz as much in one part of 

 the world as in another ; but, as for the 

 domestic details of this new Neuch&tel, 



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without one mollifying drop of woman's 

 influence, with no assuaging worldliness, 

 and no guardian to mix a little nitrogen 



