126 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



and repeated statements into any shape 

 which shall avoid his plain acceptance 

 of a Deity as frankly anthropomorphic 

 as ever child addressed in prayer or 

 painter throned on clouds. The lack of 

 a mental pou sto affects any one who 

 would examine Him in whom we live 

 and move and have our being, and all 

 our efforts avail not a whit toward shift- 

 ing the centre of gravity. This seems 

 commonplace enough, but we are shocked 

 into a new interest when we find a man 

 apparently unconscious of the difficulty. 



Phrases as startling as those below oc- 

 cur again and again in Agassiz's writings 

 (the italics are not Agassiz's) : 



"We disclose the mental operations of 

 the Creator at every step." - " It is im- 

 possible not to recognise the immediate 

 action of thought, and even to specialise 

 the intellectual faculties it reveals. " " Pre- 

 meditation, .... consecutive thought, the 

 operations of a mind acting in conform- 

 ity with a plan laid out beforehand, and 



