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everything to the world; and that now she finds that she 
made a mistake. The claims staked out, it is stated, were 
- extravagant and untenable. 
When I was at Lahore and have been asked to address 
popular audiences on scientific subjects I have not tried to 
give what is called a popular lecture on science, for the 
simple reason that I did not think that I would find an 
audience that would take a popular lecture on science in a 
way I wished it to be taken. I was confident that the great 
bulk of the audience would have to be instructed in the very 
elements of science, and to attempt this and, at the same 
time, to give an account of the recent development of science 
in the space of a single hour is perfectly futile. A popular 
lecture on science is, therefore, very apt to reduce into a 
mere tickling of the imagination and a display of imposing 
experiments ; and to that I declined to stoop. What I have 
done when I have spoken in India has been to try and 
illustrate what science really is, by giving some account of 
the life of a scientific man, and the particular man that Ihave 
selected has been the great Frenchman— Pasteur. 
In the first place, he was one of the greatest scientific men 
who ever lived. In the second place, he was the man whose 
scientific work told in an almost unparalleled degree and 
with unparalleled rapidity upon the welfare of the human 
race. In the third place, the work of Pasteur: was devoted 
to fields which are very much the same as those that above 
all others await cultivation in India; I mean the fields of 
agriculture and public health. And in the fourth place, the 
life of Pasteur illustrates not merely the potency of science 
as an instrument for the amelioration of the lot of humanity, 
but shows what science at its best really is, not only intel- 
lectually but philosophically and morally. May I remind you 
now very briefly of the achievements of this wonderful man? 
He was born in the year 1822, and after his school days, 
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