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Agassiz was never a supporter of slavery he claimed his views had nothing to do with politics.

Agassiz was influenced by philosophical idealism and the scientific work of Georges Cuvier.

According to Agassiz genera and species were ideas in the mind of God, their existence in God ’ s mind prior to their physical creation meant that God could create human as one species yet in several distinct and geographically separate acts of creation.

According to Agassiz there is one species of humans but many different creations of races.