AGASSIZ AT PENIKESE. 149 
an illustration of divine many-sidedness. To Dar- 
win these same relations would illustrate the force 
of heredity acting under diverse conditions of 
environment. The sufficiency of his own philoso- 
phy Agassiz never doubted. In this confidence in 
his own mind and its resources, lay much of his 
strength and his weakness. 
Agassiz had no sympathy with the prejudices 
worked upon by weak and foolish men in opposi- 
tion to Darwinism. He believed in the absolute 
freedom of science; that no power on earth can 
give answers beforehand to the questions which 
men of science endeavor to solve. Of this I can 
give no better evidence than the fact that every 
one of the men specially trained by him has joined 
the ranks of the evolutionists. He would teach 
them to think for themselves, not to think as 
he did. 
.The strain of the summer was heavier than we 
knew. Before the school was closed for the season, 
those who were nearest him felt that the effort was 
to be his last. His physician told him that he must 
not work, must not think. But all his life he had 
done nothing else. To stop was impossible, for 
with his temperament there was the sole choice 
between activity and death. 
And in December the end came. In the words 
of one of his old students, Theodore Lyman, “‘ We 
buried him from the chapel that stands among the 
college elms. The students laid a wreath of laurel 
on his bier, and their manly voices sang a requiem. 
For he had been a student all his life long, and 
when he died he was younger than any of them.” 
