The great naturalist probably was mesmerized at other times than the one of which his own pen furnished an account. For Townshend, p. 344, says: "Prof. Agassiz, who, when mesmerized, could not of himself stir a muscle, moved like an automaton across the room when impelled by me. Even while retaining his consciousness enough _to resist my efforts_ to move his limbs by mere gestures, without contact of any kind, he subsequently owned that he was actually compelled into such motions as I wished him to perform." CHAPTER XXII. BOSTON AND THE HARVARD PROFESSORS (_Continued_). DISINTERESTED JUDGMENTS UPON THE SHAM INVESTIGATION--OUR PART IN THE PROCEEDINGS--MORE FAIR INVESTIGATION BY THE COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NEW ENGLAND PRESS--INVESTIGATION BY A BODY OF UNITARIAN CLERGYMEN--OUR TRIUMPHANT RETURN HOME--THEODORE PARKER. Not only would Prof. Agassiz not sit in circle with us, saying that he had vowed never again to sit in a circle, but he would not even consent to go into a private room with the medium, Mr. Redman, who invited him to do so when he found that the powerfully adverse influence of hostile wills and feelings strained against him, in the room in which sat the professors and the representative of _The Courier_, paralyzed his ability to exhibit the phenomena which, under normal circumstances, were familiar and invariable with him. It is evident that all this was a mere sham "investigation." _The Boston Traveller_ said after it, that "It is _the unanimous opinion_ of those who witnessed the whole proceedings, with the exception of the representative of _The Courier_, that the whole affair was in no sense of the word an investigation, and that nothing was proved or disproved by it." And without quoting from other (non-Spiritualist) papers, I will only add from _The Cambridge Chronicle_ of July 11th, issued under the shadow of old Harvard's edifices, and circulated through its halls and dormitories, the following comments by a correspondent: "It is patent to observation that the committee approached the subject with preconceived views. They seem to have taken for granted that they knew more on the subject, even without investigation, than the unscientific Spiritualists with all their long experience and heart interest in it; and they erroneously judged that the public would take their _ipse dixit_ with unreasoning deference. Because a man knows a rock, does it follow that he knows a star? or if he knows a star, does he know a Spirit? Their professors have shown their ignorance in this 'investigation,' nothing more," etc.