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the vault over his grave are four great white angels, 

 Faith, Hope, Charity, and Science. From time to 

 time Mass is said in the chapel: the altar is of 

 white marble. Twice a year, on the day of the 

 Master's birth and the day of his death, the 

 workers at the Institute, the " Pastorians," come 

 to the chapel, some of them bringing flowers in 

 memory of him, and afterwards pay a visit of 

 ceremony to Madame Pasteur, whose apartments 

 are on the second floor of the Institute, above the 

 chapel. . . . 



" Yet, to me, who remember him, saw him, heard 

 him talk, shook hands with him, all the adornments 

 round his grave were not sufficient, and the half 

 was not told me. For he was, it seems to me, the 

 most perfect man who has ever entered the king- 

 dom of Science. His devotion to home, his gentle- 

 ness, humility, faith, patriotism, honour, shine like 

 stars. And if I take, so far as I can, which is not 

 far, his scientific life alone, apart from his spiritual 

 life, I recognise in it also the same clear evidence 

 of inspiration. For he is drawn or led forward, as 

 it were according to a carefully devised scheme, 

 from each discovery to the next. First, mathe- 

 matics : the pupil-teacher's board and lodging and 

 twelve pounds a year at the College of Besancon. 

 Then chemistry, and the run of the great Ecole 

 Normale, where he could think and make experi- 

 ments and learn without ceasing: and here the 

 voices begin to call him, as they called to Joan of 

 Arc, to help France ; and not France only did he 

 help. Then he is advanced, from the study of 

 crystalline forms, to the study of ferments. . . . 



" Out of it all, out of his magnificent studies 

 of fowl-cholera, anthrax, osteo - myelitis, and 



