Each remains great; but not all of them together could arrest the current.

Agassiz's strong efforts throughout the United States, and indeed throughout Europe, to check it, really promoted it.

From the great museum he had founded at Cambridge, from his summer school at Penikese, from his lecture rooms at Harvard and Cornell, his disciples went forth full of love and admiration for him, full of enthusiasm which he had stirred and into fields which he had indicated; but their powers, which he had aroused and strengthened, were devoted to developing the truth he failed to recognise; Shaler, Verrill, Packard, Hartt, Wilder, Jordan, with a multitude of others, and especially the son who bore his honoured name, did justice to his memory by applying what they had received from him to research under inspiration of the new revelation.
Still another man deserves especial gratitude and honour in this progress--Edward Livingston Youmans.

He was perhaps the first in America to recognise the vast bearings of the truths presented by Darwin, Wallace, and Spencer.

He became the apostle of these truths, sacrificing the brilliant career on which he had entered as a public lecturer, subordinating himself to the three leaders, and giving himself to editorial drudgery in the stimulation of research and the announcement of results.
In support of the new doctrine came a world of new proofs; those which Darwin himself added in regard to the cross-fertilization of plants, and which he had adopted from embryology, led the way, and these were followed by the discoveries of Wallace, Bates, Huxley, Marsh, Cope, Leidy, Haeckel, Muller, Gaudry, and a multitude of others in all lands.( 22) (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.