The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-30


lifetime. The influence that hG
has exercised in the scientific de
Evelopment of the country is in,
caleulable. He has largely Great
ed anew many departments of ouI
natural history, and placed it, as
it was not before, upon a truly
scientific basis; and, greatest OF
TALL, because they are to perpetuate
and multiply whatever he has left
incomplete, he has called into &C.
ton a large number of enthusias-
tic young men, who are already oe-
cupied in almost every field of sci
tentific inquiry.
| A special excellence in Agassiz
as scientist is the fidelity with
which he adhered to the subject in
hand, without indulging in ran
dom conclusions as to the ultimate
results or his facts and principles
upon other and only remotely re-
! lated doctrines or principles.
Within the field of his investiga-
ton he balanced with remarkable
felicity the hopefulness of an ex-
plorer with the cautiousness of
Ijudicious inquirer. His successes
constantly inspired him with
hopes OF further success, while his
knowledge OF the thousand of cx-
ploded theories OF the past, and of
the many times that he had found
himself compelled to revise his
own inquiries and reverse his for
mer determinations, made him
careful in respect to any sweeping
assertions of the irreversibility OF
his own decisions. And especial
ly did his modesty forbid him to
dogmatize upon subjects removed
by their very nature from the area
of his Investigations. Both his
learning and the nationally philos-
phical cast of his mind restrained
him from the flipp&ncy with which
some of his contemporary scient-
lists are accustomed to dogmatize
upon the highest and most recon
dite questions of another and
more subtitle form of philosophy
than their own.
The blood of seven generations
of Huguenot clergymen flowing in
his veins secured both his heart
and his brain against the uuWhole-
some humors that just now seem
especially to afflict some Of his
Anglo-Saxon compeers. As, on
the one hand, Agassiz pursued
scientific truth only by scientific
SnofhnHo. IN Tho okhor HI oor
fined his conclusions within the
limits appropriate to the subject
in hand. He saw with regret the
attempts being made to enlist
physical science in opposition to
the truths of religion, an attempt
which he at first silently rebuked
by lending it none of his counte-
nance; and when it was further
attempted to array natural philos-
ophy against natural theology, he
took up the challenge, and gave
his latest and ripest labors to a
demonstration of the baselessness
of all atheistical philosophy.
Though born and reared in 9th
or lands, and while he ever retain
ed warm affection for his native
hills, yet was Agassiz thoroughly
in sympathy with our national in
stitution. The breadth of his
views and the warmth of his sym
pathies made him the brother of
every man, and yet, both in return
for the heartiness with which he
wasSeceived in this country, and
from his instructive love of liberty
and equal rights, he was especial
~ an American. It is well said of
him that he was genuine demo-
crat, and that he especially loved
the unfettered freedom of thought
and action found in this country
more than anywhere else. Nature,
too, had dealt generously with
him, in giving him an admirably
balanced physique, with almost
unlimited powers of enjoyment.
He labored, or played, rambled
over hills and through valleys, or
sat long hours in his study-was
hail fellow with the sailors on
ship board, and bivouacked most
cheerily in the wilderness-and
all without pretense or manifest
sense of condescension, and was
everywhere apparently the hap
piest of the group. And was he
not favored in his life's closing,
that with his eye undimmed and
his strength undated, without
lsenility or decrepitude, he has
lclosed his wonderfully brilliant
areer?-New York Christian Ad.
vocate.
CLOTH"
They still advertise for ga good
girl to cook" Ia-
A bullet. 8 string and a pistol are
the dental instruments q New
Haven man uses.
A prisoner got out of the Green
Bay calaboose by picking the lock
with a tooth-pick.
There are 100 men residing in six
counties in California who owl
3,l40O00 acres Of land.
The "carrier" of the SullIva,
, County, n. Y, Record weighs
three hundred and fifteen pounds
"Matchless maid" is the way (
} lpresumrtous young man addressed
q lady of a very uncertain age.
: Since the hard times struck Ne
t vada thew have raised the price o
e killing Cinnamon to seven dollars
A poem appeared in a Boston pa
g per lately, written by q servau
n who lived twenty years in fami
:, ly." 'is- 1851 a4t
+ A young lady from Alleghan
g called at q bookstore the othe
/ morning for q deck of them ne1
It posted keards; double headers.
n The Worcester Press exhort
a membe of Congress to so behav
,. Is that the country shall not wit
one voice pronouncs them = lot I
: s"dead-beats." ss
n 'rKilled by visitation: of prov
ofi dence through the medium of
horse" was the coroner's verdi
"a in the case of . Georgia man WI
=. was kicked to death.
1el Recent statistics show that Il
~ value of the books sold in the Ge
y man empire amounts to only abo
=. one half of the tax upon the CO
e sumption of brandy.
- s'There!" said Jones, as he wrat
- fully pushed away the pie viii
~, his lendfady had Just served hi
ny "the stuff isn't fit for pig to e.
IA and ] amt going to eat It."
A Cincinnati mstron says IL
Gu there is not q fashionable girl
that city but would rather st
las away from church than to be sc
iat wearing pair of sipgle-butt
The gloves.