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ca, solemnly admonished to give over the infidel notion 

 that the earth is round, notwithstanding his vow to make 

 a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and devote a portion of his ex- 

 pected gam from new discoveries to restoring the Holy- 

 City to Mother Church. 



Science has been forced to fight nearly every step of 

 its glorious march against bigotry, prejudice and intoler- 

 ance. It has always been compelled to camp on the field 

 and to sleep on its arms since that grand awakening in 

 the sixteenth century when, Draper says, " On the ruins 

 of its ivy-grown cathedrals, Ecclesiasticism surprised and 

 blinded by the breaking day, sat solemnly blinking at 

 the light and life about it, absorbed in the recollection of 

 the nigbt that has passed, dreaming of new phantoms and 

 delusions in its wished for return, and vindictively strik- 

 ing its talons at any derisive assailant who approached 

 too near.' 



Agassiz incurred the imputation of Atheism in a more 

 notable instance that he has mentioned ; this by his theo- 

 ry of the multiple origin of the human race, which he de- 

 fended in an essay prefixed to Nott and Grliddin's 

 "Types of Mankind. He said, "there is no evidence 

 whatever for the assumption that mankind originated 

 from a common stock and that all the different races with 

 their peculiarities, in their present distribution, are to be 

 ascribed to subsequent changes." Yet he thought that 

 " all our liberty and moral responsibility, however sponta- 

 neous are vet instinctively directed by the All-wise and 

 Omnipotent, to fulfil the great harmonies established 

 in nature." 



In view of Agassiz's position on the three subjects, 

 the age of the earth, the multiple origin of the human 

 race and evolution, he has been spoken of by one class as 

 an "irreligious scientist," by another as a" scientific re- 

 ligionist," accordingly as the speaker adapted his science 

 to his religion or his religion to his science. He deserved 

 neither epithet. An earnest, yet fearless, student of na- 

 ture, he followed reverently her teachings, and going to 

 the limit of established law waited patiently, hopefully, 



