CHAPTER X 



THE SUPREME HOMAGE 



PASTEUR was seventy years of age. From 

 his earliest years of study he had conse- 

 crated his life to science, and unwaveringly, 

 with tireless energy, that neither envious at- 

 tacks nor bodily illness could break down, he 

 had pursued, through a chain of strong and 

 harmonious logic, the revolution which his 

 genius had introduced into science and medi- 

 cine. Now, in spite of the last selfish resist- 

 ance of those who were not willing to surrender 

 to the evidence of the truth, his name had be- 

 come famous throughout the world, his 

 methods were introduced into numberless 

 laboratories, his discoveries were everywhere 

 being applied with success. Pasteur, bowed 



with suffering and with years, almost incapaci- 

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