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of your country renders this joy even more pro- 

 found, 



"Even if science has no country, the man of 

 science must needs have one, and it is to her 

 that he should give the credit for the influence 

 which his labours may have throughout the 

 world. 



"If I may be permitted, Mr. President, to 

 close with a philosophic reflection brought to 

 my mind by your presence in this hall of toil, I 

 would like to say that it seems to me that two 

 contrary laws are today at war: one, a law of 

 blood and death, which, by daily inventing new 

 methods of combat, forces the peoples to be for- 

 ever ready for the field of battle; and the other, 

 a law of peace and labour and health, which 

 dreams only of delivering mankind from the 

 scourges that beset it. 



"The one seeks only violent conquests, the 

 other only the assuagement of human ills. The 

 latter places a single human life above all vic- 

 tories; the former would sacrifice hundreds of 

 thousands of existences to the ambition of one 



