THE NEW ORDER 



ignorance of Thy Laws and disobedi- 

 ence of Thy Commands, good Lord, 

 deliver us/' 



From the standpoint of this older 

 teaching of Augustine and Dante the 

 life-work of Louis Pasteur was more 

 than humanitarian, it was more than 

 scientific, it was religious. He regarded 

 natural processes which in their su- 

 perficial view appear relentless, cruel, 

 wholly inexplicable, as part of a possi- 

 bly beneficent order of things ; he again 

 revealed through his profound insight, 

 through his unparalleled toil, discour- 

 agement, and even scorn on the part of 

 his contemporaries, deeper laws, which 

 are beneficent, protective, and restora- 

 tive in action. He was the evangelist 

 of Osier's "third gospel": 



"And the third gospel, the gospel of 

 his body, which brings man into rela- 

 tion with Nature a true evangelion y 



