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Sadly, for an educated man, Louis Agassiz believed in ideas that we today would consider racist. He firmly believed that Africans (and American blacks as well) were born inferior to whites, and that science could support white supremacy. He also wrote "scholarly" articles about the innate superiority of the white race. In fairness, his views were common for that era (1850-1890), but that doesn't make them any easier to read today. I enclose a link to an interesting essay that shows some examples of Professor Agassiz's theories.

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