THE NEW ORDER 



Should we not institute a new order 

 of sainthood for men like Pasteur? 

 Could we find one more eminent for 

 consecration, piety, and service in life 

 and character than this devout investi- 

 gator? Entrance to this order would 

 be granted to those who through the 

 study of Nature have extended the 

 bounds of human knowledge, have be- 

 stowed incomparable blessings on the 

 human race, have relieved human suf- 

 fering, have saved or prolonged human 

 life. Would not a statue of Louis 

 Pasteur in the Cathedral of St. John 

 the Divine proclaim the faith of the 

 modern Church that the two great his- 

 toric movements of Love and of Knowl- 

 edge, of the spiritual and intellectual 

 and the physical well-being of man, are 

 harmonious parts of a single and eternal 

 truth? On the base of such a statue 



might be inscribed the words written 

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