Sublime

original work without the support of the teacher.

Everything that he undertook had to be done on a grand, heroic scale.

The most ambitious publishing effort of his career was launched, a work of ten volumes encompassing the entire natural history of the United States. It was his “endeavor to make myself understood by all.”

It was Agassiz, at age thirty-three, who first presented to the world the

awesome vision of an ancient age of ice.

Most important, one must become capable of hard, continuous,

Still, a certain uneasiness spread among his students. Colleagues had begun to question his powers of reason. Admirers were saddened to see him stumble over facts, contradict himself, or…

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