CHAPTER V 



THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM 







PASTEUR was an ardent patriot, and the 

 disasters of France affected him pro- 

 foundly. Determined though he was to work, 

 in spite of the war since he had nothing else 

 than his work to give to his country it was, 

 nevertheless, hard for him to reconcile himself, 

 so keenly did he share the high tension of pub- 

 lic feeling. Retiring to his boyhood home at 

 Arbois, he sought to content himself with 

 studying the fermentation of tan bark; yet all 

 the while he was on the alert for news and 

 quivering in unison with the soul of the nation 

 at the announcement of each new defeat. When 

 Paris was bombarded, and shells reached the 

 Museum of Natural History, ChevreuFs elo- 

 quent and indignant protest in the name of the 

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