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But Pasteur still lives in his works. He lives also in his 

 pupils. To one of these we owe the recent discovery of 

 the most potent means which have yet been found for dimin- 

 ishing the fatality of that terrible scourge and destroyer of 

 children, diphtheria. From the teaching of this man there 

 comes help to the agriculturist and to the physician, — yes, 

 to all mankind. 



Let me not close without commending to every farmer, 

 as an addition to his library, the biography of such a man 

 as Pasteur, together with the works of Thoreau, of John 

 Burroughs, of Bolles and Bradford Torrey, and of good old 

 Gilbert White of Selborne. It is from the study of the 

 writings of such men that our eyes are opened to see the life 

 that surrounds us in the woods, the fields, the ponds and 

 the streams, and to learn from every living thing some new 

 and useful lesson. 



