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dain. At an open meeting attended by medical 

 students and the public Pasteur, apparently de- 

 spairing of many of his medical colleagues, thus 

 addressed the students: "Young men, you who sit 

 on those benches, and who are perhaps the hope 

 of the medical future of the country, do not come 

 here to seek the excitement of polemics, but come 

 and learn method." Never was wiser advice given. 

 Never in the history of medicine had there appeared 

 one so thoroughly qualified to give medical stu- 

 dents instruction in method; and never had the 

 value of scientific method been more clearly exem- 

 plified than in the work of this lay member of 

 the Academy. 



Pasteur had a passionate love of science. He 

 had an equally strong love of humanity. But with 

 him it can hardly be said that science and humanity 

 were two separate objects of affection, for he saw 

 in science the means of performing the greatest 

 service to his fellow man. Serious, tremendously 

 in earnest, a man of deep feelings, and intensely 

 patriotic, he lived a life of severe labor with a 

 devotion to his work which was essentially reli- 

 gious. "Happy is he," he says, "who carries with 

 him his own ideal and lives in obedience to it." 

 To a rare degree he possessed that faculty which 



