166 THE LIFE OF PASTEUR 



" ' Whatever career you may embrace, look up to an exalted 

 goal ; worship great men and great things.' 



" Great things I You have indeed seen them. Will not this 

 centenary remain one of Scotland's glorious memories? As to 

 great men, in no country is their memory better honoured 

 than in yours. But, if work should be the very life of your 

 life, if the cult for great men and great things should be asso- 

 ciated with your every thought, that is still not enough. Try 

 to bring into everything you undertake the spirit of scientific 

 method, founded on the immortal works of Galileo, Descartes 

 and Newton. 



"You especially, medical students of this celebrated Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh — who, trained as you are by eminent masters, 

 may aspire to the highest scientific ambition — be you inspired by 

 the experimental method. To its principles, Scotland owes 

 such men as Brewster, Thomson and Lister." 



The speaker who had to respond on behalf of the students 

 to the foreign delegates expressed himself thus, directly address- 

 ing Pasteur : 



' Monsieur Pasteur, you have snatched from nature secrets 

 too carefully, almost maliciously hidden. We greet in you a 

 benefactor of humanity, all the more so because we know that 

 you admit the existence of spiritual secrets, revealed to us by 

 what you have just called the work of God in us. 



" Bepresentatives of France, we beg you to tell your great 

 country that we are following with admiration the great reforms 

 now being introduced into every branch of your education, 

 reforms which we look upon as tokens of a beneficent rivalry and 

 of a more and more cordial intercouse — for misunderstandings 

 result from ignorance, a darkness lightened by the work of 

 scientists." 



The next morning, at ten o'clock, crowds gathered on the 

 station platform with waving handkerchiefs. People were 

 showing each other a great Edinburgh daily paper, in which 

 Pasteur's speech to the undergraduates was reproduced and 

 which also contained the following announcement in large 

 print : 



"In memory of M. Pasteur's visit to Edinburgh, Mr. 

 Younger offers to the Edinburgh University a donation of 

 £500." 



Livingstone's daughter, Mrs. Bruce, on whom Pasteur had 

 called the preceding day, came to the station a few moments 



