Agassiz, When I Saw Him Last, Had

It Remains To Consider What Attitude Thoughtful Men And Christian Believers Should Take Respecting Them, And How They Stand Related To Beliefs Of Another Order.

It Was Implicitly Supposed That Every Living Thing Was Distinctively Plant Or Animal; That There Were Real And Profound Differences Between The Two, If Only They Could Be Seized.

Many Years Ago It Was Taught That Plants And Animals Were Composed Of Different Materials: Plants, Of A Chemical Substance Of Three Elements,- Carbon, Hydrogen, And Oxygen; Animals Of One Of Four Elements, Nitrogen Being Added To The Other Three.

I Am Sufficiently Convinced Already That The Members Of A Profession Know Their Own Calling Better Than Anyone Else Can Know It.

This View, As A Rounded Whole And In All Its Essential Elements, Has Very Recently Disappeared From Science. It Died A Royal Death With Agassiz.