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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 12: 1843-1846: Aet. 36-39. (search)
you; for many years have now elapsed since I last had that pleasure. May God long preserve your life, which has been spent in promoting the great ends of truth and knowledge! Your great work on fossil fishes is now before me, and I also possess the first number of your monograph upon the fishes of the Old Red Sandstone. I trust the new numbers will follow the first in rapid succession. I love now and then to find a resting-place; and your works always give me one. The opinions of Geoffroy St. Hilaire and his dark school seem to be gaining some ground in England. I detest them, because I think them untrue. They shut out all argument from design and all notion of a Creative Providence, and in so doing they appear to me to deprive physiology of its life and strength, and language of its beauty and meaning. I am as much offended in taste by the turgid mystical bombast of Geoffroy as I am disgusted by his cold and irrational materialism. When men of his school talk of the elective
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
Alaskan flora, 660. Fossil Arctic flora, 657, 658,659. Frazer, 419. Fremont, J. C., 439. Fuchs, 44, 150, 644. Fuegian natives, 736. G. Galapagos islands, 759, 762. Galloupe, C. G., 773. Geneva, invitation to, 276. Geoffroy St. Hilaire's progressive theory, remarks on, 383. Gibbes, 493. Glacial marks in Scotland, 806, 309, 376; Roads of Glen Roy, 308; in Ireland, 310; in New England, 411, 413; in New York, 426; at Halifax, 445; at Brooklyn, 449; at East Boston, 449ures at, 529; close, 530; yearly meeting of old pupils,—gift to the Museum, 530. Schubert, 44, 150, 682. Scudder, S. H., description by, of a first lesson by Agassiz, 567. Scyplia, 709. Sea bottom, 653, 672. Sedgwick, Adam, on Geoffroy St. Hilaire's theory, 383; question on descent, 385-387. Sedgwick, Adam, 666. Seeley, H. G., 687. Seiber, 44, 643. Sharks and skates, 550. Shepard, 414. Sholl Bay, 734, 735; moraine at, 735. Shore level, change of, 673. Siebold, Le