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increased to 25,000 francs. Pasteur succeeded Littre in the 

 Academic Fran^aise. Monuments have been erected to him in 

 Melun, Lille, Arbois, Dole, Besan9on and Paris. Both Roty and 

 Dubois made low relief circular bronze plaques of Pasteur. That 

 by Dubois, especially the larger one (7 inch), is very desirable. 

 There is also a fine bust by Dubois in Copenhagen. For a frank 

 and charming letter at 26, proposing marriage, see "Les Annales," 

 Paris, 2 Fevrier, 1919, p. 105, and [for a vivid description of his 

 personal appearance at the time of his rabies studies, see "Monsieur 

 Taine and Monsieur Pasteur" by Gabriel Hanotaux of the French 

 Academy {Ihid., pp. 102-103). For a bibliography of his principal 

 writings consult "Revue scientifique," 4 se., tome IV, No. 14, 

 Paris, 1895, pp. 427-431. For portrait as a young man see "Les 

 Annales," 1. c, p. 105, and when old, Wittrock II, Tafl. 78. 



"At the middle of the last century we did not know much more of 

 the actual causes of the great scourges of the race, the plagues, 

 the fevers and the pestilences, than did the Greeks. Here comes in 

 Pasteur's great work. Before him Egyptian darkness; with his 

 advent a light that brightens more and more as the years give us 

 ever fuller knowledge. * * * It was a study of the processes of 

 fermentation that led Pasteur to the sure ground on which we now 

 stand." (Sir Wm. Osier.) 



"Your father is absorbed in his thoughts, talks little, sleeps little, 

 rises at dawn, and, in one word, continues the life I began with him 

 this day thirty-five years ago." (Madame Pasteur, 1884.) 



Aphorisms and Ideals of Pasteur : 



The characteristic of a true theory is its fruitfulness. 



Science should not concern itself in any way with the philosophi- 

 cal consequences of its discoveries. 



Hypotheses come into our laboratories in armfuls, they fill our 

 registers with projected experiments, they stimulate us to research 

 and that is all. 



The recompense and the ambition of a scientist is to conquer the 

 approbation of his peers and of the masters whom he venerates. 



It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to 

 let one day go by without doing some work. 



If that teaching [the higher education] is but for a small number, 

 it is with this small number, this elite, that the prosperity, glory and 

 supremacy of a nation rest. 



Whatever career you may embrace, look up to an exalted goal; wor- 

 ship great men and great things. [To the students at Edinburgh, 



Great is the joy of a teacher whose pupils become masters. 



A man of science should think of what will be said of him in 

 the following century, not of the insults or the compliments of one 

 day. 



