Agassiz's

I think you're right that there is always a gap between the practical and the ideal, and I'd add that our understanding of games, until very recently, was deeply handicapped much like Agassiz's biology, as I've said before by a belief in the realness of the ideal at the expense of the game as constituted by its actual practice.

Plato’s game

Joins Amazon expedition of his teacher Louis Agassiz, contracts a mild form of smallpox, recovers and travels up the Amazon, collecting specimens for Agassiz's zoological museum at Harvard.

William James

As my account of Agassiz's quality should rest upon my experiences with him, I shall now go on to tell how and to what effect he trained me.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction

The following passages will illustrate Agassiz's ideals and practice in teaching, the emphasis being laid upon his dealings with special students.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction

In this primitive establishment Agassiz's laboratory, as distinguished from the storerooms where the collections were crammed, occupied one room about thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide -- what is now the west room on the lower floor of the edifice.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction

Agassiz's laboratory was then in a rather small two-storied building, looking much like a square dwelling-house, which stood where the

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction

I suppose you have read Agassiz's marvellous theory of the Great

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

Judged by the impression made upon the listeners as recorded at the time, this introductory discourse must have been characterized by the same broad spirit of generalization which marked Agassiz's later teaching.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction

Further on Asa Gray says (after speaking of Agassiz's paper on Glaciers in the _Atlantic Magazine_ and his recent book entitled "Method of Study"): "Pray set Wallace upon these articles."

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

Agassiz's general faith in the susceptibility of the popular intelligence, however untrained, to the highest truths of nature, was contagious, and he created or developed that in which he believed ....

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction