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LOUIS AGASSIZ. 
- Part of an address by David S. Jordan. 
Teacher’s Institute San Diego county. 
“T have known and loved as well as 
a small man can know and love a great 
one, od man of ae I am to try to 
giv cture—probably the 
greatest man in se history of educa- 
tion in America 
the 
button 
quite SO 0 tiehthy in — the house of 
the 
ore Darentage. "and early — 
of this man an read in Pe 
cyclopedia. His other was ess- 
ed of a senda nto ae — and “this 
was pena ah so A boy 
: ~ Noates that 
he een ‘sometime oe said that Lewis 
Agassiz was good good citi- 
nd the oe tial Peeks Hist oe his 
ure, never before 
cted. jee Geeeceed hits eapectiity 
interested him . was the nature and 
m 
d a mass 
e he et worl 
of paldaie cmicciion which could 
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er have been gathered but by such 
rece’ ation 
‘At last ke went to Pista and lived 
in the Latin quarter. While there, he 
met Humboldt, yas ut 
ake a tour in Liberia for scientific 
investigation Agassiz wished to ac- 
company him, but H oldt chose a 
better-known ma the same 
ime, two y n and 
uxley, applied for gape der i po 
se as they were bere wathotaners 
well know 
“Agassiz, later, kha to os 
and thence to Amer He to 
America for two reason a one te natéde 
the glacier formations; second, to see 
for himself the great republic, fo 
was the child of the little Swiss re- 
public 
he gh offered one of the finest of 
ourtoean professorships, he decided 
to remain in America and become an 
merican 
the breath of freedom 
air of A pes 2 and 
se. 
the 
agg and thus restore the symmet- 
ee work of this new man was en- 
tirely different from anything pre- 
viously known. He went out and 
talked with fairness and was ready to 
learn from every one he met. He at- 
tended teachers’ institutes, and gave- 
to stud 
n 
ing that t 
; be used till all 
ndependent investigation 
ade. 
“In nie ‘this great educator decided 
to hold ort of educational camp- 
meeting ie phar es of Bigten se < in 
