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Agassizian school, relative to the propriety of interpreting a system 
of material structures, by any exhibitions of a spirit which is but tem- 
porarily attached to one such, and whose powers are obviously lim- 
ited for the purpose of adapting it to its material prison and surround- 
ings." 
"His theology seemed to be truer (me judice!!) than any I have 
heard from a scientific man for some time — but he believed in the 
resurrection of the body!! Prof. "Henry joined in and argued very 
interestingly. He has no German transcendentalism in him as it 
comes natural for a Friend to have. But how few of these reasoners 
upon the Cosmos have laid a good foundation in comparative anat- 
omy and embryology. If acquirement in this respect was more equal 
there would perhaps be less difference of opinion among such men.'.' ■ 
Speaking of his good health he says to his father: "This 
I owe to thy care, and with it everything that makes life pleas- 
ant to me." 
His scientific work for 1862 comprised thirteen papers 
through the A. N. S. 
The next letter, also to this father, is dated Munich, June 
13, 1863, during his first European voyage. He speaks of 
having spent three weeks in Leyden with Prof. Schlegel, a 
man of wide range of ability who "knows all there is to know, 
except anatomy, physiology and medicine, wherein lies his 
great defect." The following is interesting as giving the views 
of so eminent a Friend on the question of maintaining an 
army: 
"I hear nothing but bad news from the United States. It is plain 
that we cannot carry on those works, or achieve the results which 
require the united systematic efforts of a whole people without a 
strong government which shall absolutely rule; but it is plain also 
that such arrangements, as far as I can see here, are the moral ruin 
and intellectual degradation of a great many people; hence the con- 
clusion that the results to be obtained are not worth the loss incurred 
in obtaining them; hence the request of the Jews for a king instead 
of a judge, was a mistake. But as things are, I suppose we shall 
have a strong government; what my duty would be in case I were 
drafted, I am as much in the dark about as ever. If seems wrong 
to withdraw myself from any participation in government at all — yet 
if one begins it is hard to stop short of armies." 
During the year 1863 four papers were published through 
A. N. S., one through the Am. J. S, and Art, and one through 
the Zool. Soc, London. 
From Albany, Aug. 14, 1864, he wrote his father that he 
