THE NEW ORDER 



"Cured from his wounds, delighted 

 with all he saw, gayly running about 

 as if he had been in his own Alsatian 

 farm, little Meister, whose blue eyes 

 now showed neither fear nor shyness, 

 merrily received the last inoculation ; in 

 the evening, after claiming a kiss from 

 'Dear Monsieur Pasteur,' as he called 

 him, he went to bed and slept peace- 

 fully." 1 



The life of Pasteur is typical of that 

 of many students of Nature, of less 

 genius, perhaps, but of equal devotion 

 and self-sacrifice. It is interesting to 

 imagine what tributes might have been 

 rendered to Pasteur if he had lived in 

 the period of the early saints of the 

 Church, and had won the love of his 

 generation and the reverence of suc- 



1 Vallery-Radot, Rene. "The Life of Pasteur." 

 Translation of Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. (London, 

 Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1906, pp. 416, 417.) 



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