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so successfully applied. In 1895 he had almost 

 ceased to visit the laboratories of the Institute. 

 His growing weakness apprised him of the ap- 

 proaching end. Alone one evening with his grand- 

 children, who were playing about his knees, he took 

 them in his arms and affectionately kissed them 

 while tears rolled down his careworn face. To the 

 anxious questions of the children he replied, "I am 

 weeping, my children, because I am so soon to leave 

 you." The paralysis which had affected him years 

 before began to recur, and made it more difficult 

 for him to speak. The loving care of his family 

 and the solicitude of many friends did everything 

 possible to cheer his declining days. On September 

 27, 1895, holding in one hand a crucifix, for he had 

 always lived in the Catholic faith, and with the 

 other resting in the grasp of Madame Pasteur, he 

 passed away. 



At the request of the French Government the 

 body of Pasteur was placed in a beautiful chapel at 

 the base of the Pasteur Institute. Its marble walls 

 bear the names of the chief fields of investigation in 

 which he had won renown, — molecular asymmetry, 

 fermentation, spontaneous generation, studies on 

 wine, studies on silk worms ; studies on beer, the 

 cause of contagious diseases, curative vaccines, the 



