CHAPTER XI 



THE LAST DAYS OF A GREAT MAN 



EVER since his first attacks of paralysis 

 Pasteur had retained a certain heaviness 

 in his movements, and, while his brain was in- 

 tact, experiments demanding a supreme manual 

 dexterity had become difficult for him. He was 

 forced regretfully to abandon his labours, still 

 unsatisfied with what he had achieved, and with 

 his imagination still active and dreaming of 

 discoveries that still evaded him. Pasteur con- 

 tinued to follow the experiments of his disci- 

 ples, which were born of his methods, but what 

 he wanted was the power to push onward by 

 himself to the extreme limits of the new path 

 which his genius had laid open. However, he 

 accepted his destiny without bitterness. He 

 was able to share the delight of Dr. Roux when 

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