Hope of Advancement 



gested that three flies (with their progeny) would 

 devour a dead horse more quickly than a lion; but 

 three bacilli would do the work even more rapidly 

 and more completely than any number of flies. 



'In 1877 I wrote for The Dial a review of Tyndall's Floating 

 "Floating Matter in the Air," remarking that now 

 we were beginning to find out what our enemies 

 were, we should be able to fight them. That state- 

 ment proved prophetically true; medicine at present 

 stands on the firing line of science, and in no depart- 

 ment of human knowledge has the forward movement 

 been more sound or more impressive. 



In Indianapolis, for the first time since leaving 

 Cornell, I felt that my work was being appreciated, 

 not only by my students who were always en- 

 thusiastic but also by the powers in control. 

 Ambition, however, impelled me toward university Efforts 

 work, and I had no desire to remain in a high school. ^^ ersit 

 I therefore used to envy my friend Snow, already position 

 established, and for a lifetime, in a college good 

 enough to call forth his best work. My removal to 

 Butler I regarded as temporary only, though useful 

 as restoring my college foothold, lost for the time 

 on leaving Cornell and Lombard. I accordingly 

 made numerous though unsuccessful efforts to secure 

 a position in larger institutions among them 

 Purdue, where Wiley vainly tried to organize a 

 Natural History department of which I had been 

 promised the headship. 



This disappointment was only one of several at 

 about the same period. Before leaving Appleton 



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