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but the misguided individuals who would stop the 

 progress of experimental research. 



The career of Louis Pasteur affords a striking 

 illustration of the truth that the cause of science 

 and the cause of humanity are one. Nothing would 

 have been more repugnant to this kindly man than 

 the infliction of useless pain. He shrank from 

 operations, and he sometimes forced himself to 

 carry on work in his investigations on hydrophobia 

 which was painful for him to perform. But he had 

 visions of the possibility of conquering disease and 

 abolishing needless suffering and death that made 

 his natural sympathies an aid rather than an 

 obstacle to research. As the treatments for bites 

 of rabid animals increased in number he was re- 

 warded with the certain knowledge that he had 

 saved many persons from a death that is frequently 

 of the most painful kind. Such persons scattered 

 about through many countries became object les- 

 sons to the people around them of the efficacy of 

 the Pasteur treatment, and when the project was 

 started for creating a great institute for the work 

 of Pasteur and his colleagues it was supported by 

 an unparalleled burst of generosity. Not only 

 from France, but from Italy, England, Russia, the 

 United States, and many other countries, contribu- 



