LOUIS AGASSIZ 99 



the word to a high, power to make it 

 take due place in onr portrait. But his 

 greatest power lay in his own profound 

 conviction of the beauty and importance 

 of the things with which he dealt. He 

 was reported at the Lowell Institute 

 as using "rapturous terms concerning 

 glaciation in Maine.'' Here was a man 

 after Sydney Smith's own heart. Who 

 can imagine Agassiz speaking disre- 

 spectfully of the equator! 



