94 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Murchison said ; f I liave known a great 

 many men that I liked ; bnt I love Agas- 

 siz.' In the Isle of Wight, Darwin said : 

 1 What a set of men you have in Cam- 

 bridge ! Both our universities put to- 

 gether cannot furnish the like. Why, 

 there is Agassiz, he counts for three.' " 

 The published recollections of Agassiz 

 constantly repeat that only those who 

 knew him personally can appreciate his 

 power or understand the charm he exer- 

 cised. ' ' Never, ' ' said Emerson, ' < could 

 his work be separated from himself.'' 

 "He was the largest in personality of all 

 the men I ever knew,' 7 says another 

 writer. And still another speaks of a 

 kind of human presence worth more than 

 any scholastic artifices, widening the 

 mind as if by enchantment. Such a 

 human presence at Harvard was Louis 

 Agassiz. "Can one ever forget that 

 beaming face as he used to come stroll- 

 ing across the yard, with lighted cigar, 

 in serene obliviousness of the university 



