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it is to that true insight into Nature's works, which we 

 term imagination, that not only the artist, but also the 

 man of science owes his power. This intimate alliance 

 between art and science meets us at every step. When 

 lately in Paris I saw an impressive sight, namely, the 

 institute founded by French foresight and generosity 

 to carry on the work and immortalise the name of 

 Pasteur. In front of the Pasteur Institute stands a 

 statue worked with consummate skill in bronze. It is 

 the figure of a boy struggling heroically with a mad 

 dog. Nor does this statue represent a mythical act of 

 heroism, but one which actually took place only a few 

 short months ago. The French boy in killing the dog 

 without assistance or weapon was horribly bitten, but 

 his life was preserved from the certain fate of the most 

 fearful of all fearful deaths, by being one of the first 

 out of the now many hundreds of human beings suc- 

 cessfully inoculated against hydrophobia by Pasteur, 

 one of the foremost living men of science. If on this 

 occasion I refer to this subject, it is because the statue 

 of the boy struggling for life with the rabid dog serves 

 as a typical instance of one way, at least, in which art 

 assists science. For surely that is the noblest form of 

 art which appeals to one of the highest and deepest 

 feelings in man that of human sympathy sympathy 

 which more than any mere material reward encourages 

 the labourer in the fields of scientific investigation, and 

 enables him to carry on his researches to a successful 

 issue." 



Referring to the above, I received the following letter 

 from Pasteur : 



PARIS, le 15 mai, 1889. 

 CHER CONFRERE ET AMI, 



J'ai et6 particulierement sensible a 1'hommage que vous 

 avez rendu a Tart et la science apres votre retour a Londres 

 et que Tlnstitut Pasteur ait servi en partie de tente a votre 



