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this is strikingly shown with regard to the progress of 

 the Institute, and of its beneficent work in the allevia- 

 tion of human suffering. 



On December 27th, 1892, the French nation cele- 

 brated Pasteur's seventieth birthday. I very much 

 regretted that I was unable to accept the invitation 

 to be present on that occasion, and I was grieved 

 to receive not long afterwards the intimation of his 

 death, which occurred on September 28th, 1895. The 

 mortal remains of this great benefactor to mankind 

 rest in a beautiful mortuary chapel erected in front 

 of the Institute where his great work was carried 

 on, and where his devoted pupils still labour in the 

 good cause. 



To learn what the French themselves think of 

 Pasteur and his work, the words of M. Gaston Paris 

 may be quoted : 



" No one claimed more insistently for science the honour 

 and the place to which it has a right, or became more 

 indignant with the misunderstanding which refuses to it the 

 means of action of which it stands in need. In a brief 

 publication entitled Le Budget de la Science published in 1868, 

 Pasteur appealed to his fellow-citizens to take more interest 

 in those sacred abodes known by the expressive name of 

 laboratories. * Ask that they should be multiplied and adorned. 

 They are the temples of the future. It is there that humanity 

 becomes greater and stronger and better.' Paris concludes 

 in the following words : " Science, in the circles where it 

 is honoured and understood, does not restrict to men of 

 science the moral benefit which it confers. It diffuses in 

 wider circles the love of truth and the habit of seeking it 

 without bias, or recognising it only by unalloyed proofs, and 

 of submitting docilely to it. I think that no loftier or more 

 fruitful virtue can be inculcated in a nation. Pasteur had the 

 joy and the supreme honour of seeing the most magnificent 

 of these temples of the future arise at his invocation owing to 

 the munificence of the entire nation. There he reposes 

 to-day in his glory, and about his tomb has been formed, like 



