OF SAINTHOOD 



ceeding generations by his mighty 

 works. It is interesting to surmise 

 what would have been the attitude of 

 the early Church toward such a bene- 

 factor of mankind. Our belief to-day 

 is that Pasteur should stand as a sym- 

 bol of the profound and intimate rela- 

 tion which must develop between the 

 study of Nature and the religious life 

 of man, between our present and future 

 knowledge of Nature and the develop- 

 ment of our religious conceptions and 

 beliefs. 



We are now in a process of readjust- 

 ment between the issues of two lines of 

 thought, which are almost as old as hu- 

 man history; between laws derived 

 from Nature which were discovered in 

 the middle of the nineteenth century as 

 to the origin of man, and traditional 

 laws which when traced to their very 

 beginnings we find to have been purely 

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