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he wished to have made, but never revealing 

 the idea behind them. Succeeding Raulin, he 

 had Duclaux, who was still young and who was 

 destined to become a great scientist. Duclaux 

 admired the achievements of his master, and 

 with his keen and lucid mind followed his 

 luminous trail, while he often added to his du- 

 ties as assistant the humbler ones of a labora- 

 tory attendant, wiping the apparatus, the re- 

 torts and flasks, a devoted servant in the tem- 

 ple of science. A rather sorry temple, by the 

 way, for the laboratory was extremely incon- 

 venient, with its five scanty rooms and a stove 

 installed behind the staircase, where Pasteur 

 could not enter except on his knees. Duclaux 

 compared it to a rabbit cage, "and yet it was 

 from there/' he said, "that the movement 

 started which revolutionized science." 



Already at that epoch a large faction of the 

 younger generation of scientists had come un- 

 der the daily increasing influence of Pasteur. 

 "The Normal School chemists of 1860," wrote 

 Mrs. Duclaux, in her Vie d'Emile Duclaux, "be- 



