PASTEUR 



CHAPTER I 



A STUDIOUS BOYHOOD 



LOUIS PASTEUR is one of the glories of 

 France, and, among them all, the one 

 whose light shines clearest and most fertile in 

 results. His name has radiated throughout the 

 world, and for scientists and laymen alike it 

 symbolises that spirit of humanity which 

 strove to succour all the ills of his fellow men 

 and that genius for invention which opened 

 vast new horizons to the researches of science. 

 His sovereignty is now undisputed, there is no 

 nation which has not rendered him due hom- 

 age, and, as his fame has widened, it has, ac- 

 cording to his own desire, increased the moral 

 patrimony and the intellectual force of his na- 

 tive land. 



