90 PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR 



ill-health, opposition : he lived to see his doctrines 

 current over all the world, his facts enthroned, his 

 methods applied to a thousand affairs of manufac- 

 ture and agriculture, his science put in practice by 

 all doctors and surgeons, his name praised and 

 blessed by mankind : and the very animals, if they 

 could speak, would say the same. Genius : that is 

 the only word. When genius does come to earth, 

 which is not so often as some clever people think, 

 it chooses now and again strange tabernacles : but 

 here was a man whose spiritual life was no less 

 admirable than his scientific life. In brief, nothing 

 is too good to say of him : and the decorations of 

 his grave, once you know his work, are poor, when 

 you think what he was and what he did. Still, it 

 is well that he should lie close to the work of the 

 Institute, close to the heart of Paris, with Faith, 

 Hope, Love, and Science watching over him. 



