XII. 



ALTHOUGH Agassiz had so definitely 

 adopted America, lie was not legally a 

 citizen of the United States until in the 

 darkest hour of the Civil War he took 

 out his naturalisation papers a small 

 public act to indicate his feeling. He 

 abhorred slavery, and yet he was a 

 cause of offence to the Abolitionists be- 

 cause of his opinion that the negro and 

 the white represented distinct species. 

 Another opinion concerning the human 

 race, that it could not possibly have de- 

 scended from one couple and had sprung 

 from several independent centres, had 

 at one time brought him abuse, while 

 at the same time he was abused for up- 

 holding the order of creation as given 

 in Genesis and for his immediate re- 

 course to the Deity when explanation 

 was to seek. So, too, on the negro ques- 

 tion, both sides accused him of time- 

 serving. All matters of acclimatisation, 



