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(22) For Agassiz's opposition to evolution, see the Essay on

Classification, vol. i, 1857, as regards Lamark, and vol. iii, as

regards Darwin; also Silliman's Journal, July 1860; also the Atlantic

Monthly, January 1874; also his Life and Correspondence, vol. ii, p.

647; also Asa Gray, Scientific Papers, vol. ii, p. 484. A reminiscence

of my own enables me to appreciate his deep ethical and religious

feeling. I was passing the day with him at Nahant in 1868, consulting

him regarding candidates for various scientific chairs at the newly

established Cornell University, in which he took a deep interest. As we

discussed one after another of the candidates, he suddenly said: "Who is

to be your Professor of Moral Philosophy? That is a far more important

position than all the others."