INTRODUCTION XXV 



press which allows the whole people to take part in the 

 drama? It is two tragic choruses berating each other. 

 And the scene is France, and the theater, the world." 



"The minister was long and diffuse. It is incredible 

 how much this cursed French language allows one to 

 speak without saying anything. There are a certain 

 number of words which straightway show the intellectual 

 poverty of those who use them. Ten times yesterday 

 [at the unveiling in Lille of a monument to Pasteur] the 

 rigid logic of Pasteur was mentioned. But, good people ! 

 logic is a proof of mediocrity, and savants who have only 

 logic are not scientific men!' 



"Nature loves diversity, education aims at repressing 

 it. Those who later break through into life, show origi- 

 nality and make a name for themselves, are recruited 

 chiefly from those who have escaped the sterilizing 

 influences of the first years." 



"Toute douleur est bonne si elle sert a nous agrandir 

 1'ame." 



"On peut rever une humanite* supe"rieure a celle qui 

 s'incarne temporairement en nous." 



"Soyons chacun soi-meme, soyons different mais 

 soyons unis." 



"Ce que la cellule vivante faisait, sans conviction ni 

 libre arbitre, il 6tait digne de Phomme de le faire, dans 

 Finte're't commun." 



"There is no end to science. So long as there shall 

 be men, there will be savants, and so long as there shall 

 be savants there will be discoveries. Gradually the 

 spirit of men of science has been enlarged and has become 

 open to the idea that the world is immense, that the 

 forces which circulate in it are also immense in number, 

 that those of which we are ignorant considerably exceed 

 those we know. We are sure, from certain examples, 

 that there are circulating around us incessantly count- 



