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Louis Agassiz. 



race through rude Stone age, polished Stone age, 

 Bronze age and Iron age, corresponding to the 

 palaeontological series. It is by comparisons of this 

 kind that Herbert Spencer is now attempting to lay 

 the foundations of a scientific sociology. I repeat 

 it : if sociology ever becomes a science it will owe 

 much to the genius and the method of Louis 

 Agassiz. 



POPULARITY OF LOUIS AGASSIZ. 

 By Robert E. C. Stearns. 



Mr. President. — It has pleased you to insist 

 that I should add something to the general expres- 

 sion of sorrow and of eulogy. It is in no spirit 

 of reluctance that I hesitate to bear testimony to 

 the merits of him to whose voice it was so pleasant 

 to listen, and in whose presence it was a pleasure to 

 be ; but rather from the fear of my inability to 

 render an even measure of justice to the dead. 



Without enlarging upon those exterior character- 

 istics by which he was known, and which, ennobled 

 by a generous nature, gave grace and dignity to his 

 person, we find with and above these attractions a 

 moral and intellectual greatness and simplicity, 

 which endeared him to his fellow-men. 



I cannot recall the name of any other scientific 

 man, which has been so often spoken, and with so 

 much respect and affection, in the homes and fami- 

 lies of our people, as that of Agassiz. 



This respect and affection arose, not alone from 

 his intellectual achievements or from the popularity 



