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our social relations, when humanity knows whence it came and 

 understands where it is going." The audience, which could not all 

 be accommodated in the lecture hall, thanked him by long applause. 



This was his last visit to the establishment of which he was justly 

 proud and for which he showed the affection of a father for his 

 iast-born. Some weeks later, on his sick bed, he talked with me 

 of the great future he foresaw for our science. And in an affection- 

 ate tone which I shall never forget, he wished to thank once more 

 his collaborators for the intellectual pleasures which they had pro- 

 vided him, the pleasures to which this sovereign prince attached 

 the greatest value. Some weeks later, on June 26 last, he succumbed. 

 His will, drawn in terms of rare nobility, constitutes a final glowing 

 testimonial of his devotion to the interests of science, the chief aim of 

 a life wholly devoted to labor and to the progress of humanity. 



You have here, gentlemen and dear colleagues, an existence and 

 a work which overstep, through their greatness and importance, 

 the limits of geographical territory where they were begun. The 

 eminent services rendered to science by Prince Albert I, of Monaco, 

 were not exclusively in favor of that France of which he was always 

 the faithful and devoted friend. The results accomplished, thanks 

 to his influence and to his liberality, are to-day a part of the uni- 

 versal patrimony. And his activity, from which my country was 

 the first to benefit, was also beneficial to other countries, where it 

 acted as a sort of catalytic force, inciting great activity in the 

 iield of our studies and inducing emulation everywhere. It is, 

 therefore, not alone the progress in France in the course of these 

 last 20 years in the domain of human paleontology which resulted 

 in great part from the anthropological work of Prince Albert; the 

 progress made nearly everywhere also depended on it in a more or 

 less direct way. 



It was through the unlimited realization of progress of this kind 

 that this " prince of science and art," this " useful prince," foresaw 

 for humanity better days, as shown by this phrase written by him : 

 " I have cultivated science because it diffuses knowledge, and knowl- 

 edge engenders justice." 



