THE NEW ORDER 



Among all the great scientific men 

 whom the nineteenth century produced 

 Pasteur ranks supreme as a benefactor 

 of mankind. He played the original 

 and^ creative part in the movement for 

 'the p'reveritibn and relief of human suf- 

 fering which Sir William Osier has 

 aptly termed "Man's Redemption of 

 Man/ 5 It is far under the truth to 

 say that he has saved more lives than 

 Napoleon destroyed. In Nature he 

 found the causes of a very large part of 

 human suffering; in Nature he also 

 found the means of controlling or avert- 

 ing suffering. His attitude toward his 

 fellow men was one of noble compas- 

 sion. His first trial of the hydro- 

 phobia serum with a young sufferer 

 brought to him, his agony of mind lest 

 the remedy itself might be the means 

 of causing death, his joy as the child 

 was restored in perfect health to its 



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