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Of the men who impressed me most was Henri Martin, 

 the eminent historian. He discussed with me the history 

 of France in a way which aroused many new trains of 

 thought. Jules Simon, eminent both as a scholar and a 

 statesman, did much for me. On one occasion he took 

 me about Paris, showing me places of special interest con 

 nected with the more striking scenes of the Revolutionary 

 period ; on another, he went with me to the distribution of 

 prizes at the French Academy a most striking scene; 

 and on still another he piloted me through his beautiful 

 library, pointing out various volumes in which were em 

 bedded bullets which the communards had fired through 

 his windows from the roof of the Madeleine just opposite. 



Another interesting experience was a breakfast with the 

 eminent chemist Sainte-Claire Deville, at which I met Pas 

 teur, who afterward took me through his laboratories, 

 where he was then making some of his most important 

 experiments. In one part of his domain there were cages 

 containing dogs, and on my asking about them he said 

 that he was beginning a course of experiments bearing 

 on the causes and cure of hydrophobia. Nothing could be 

 more simple and modest than this announcement of one 

 of the most fruitful investigations ever made. 



Visits to various institutions of learning interested me 

 much, among these a second visit to the Agricultural Col 

 lege at Grignon and the wonderful Conservatoire des Arts 

 et Metiers, which gave me new ideas for the similar de 

 partments at Cornell, and a morning at the Ecole Normale, 

 where I saw altogether the best teaching of a Latin classic 

 that I have ever known. As I heard Professor Desjardins 

 discussing with his class one of Cicero s letters in the 

 light of modern monuments in the Louvre and of recent 

 archaeological discoveries, I longed to be a boy again. 



Among the statesmen whom I met at that time in France, 

 a strong impression was made upon me by one who had 

 played a leading part in the early days of Napoleon III, 

 but who was at this time living in retirement, M. Drouyn 

 de Lhuys. He had won distinction as minister of for- 



