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combination with ignorance and with an absence of 

 all sense of proportion. If after the war the nation 

 awakes to a sense of its responsibility in connection 

 with advancement of knowledge every man and 

 woman will take care to make himself or herself 

 fully informed upon this subject. The experi- 

 mentalist has nothing to fear, but everything to 

 gain, from the formation of an informed and 

 healthy public opinion concerning his work. It is 

 what he most hopes for. 



There remains an infinite amount to be done 

 before all that is still obscure about disease and its 

 treatment can be made clear. This is plain to us 

 from our present standpoint, and fresh knowledge 

 will reveal, as it always does, unsuspected ignorance. 

 It is to be hoped that this country, during the 

 period of reconstruction after the war, will recognise 

 that medical science is itself a reconstructive force. 

 It must heal, so far as possible, those whom the 

 war has broken, and so help to provide workers for 

 the immediate future. It must watch the public 

 health during the strain of exceptional effort which 

 is to come. It must teach the nation how best 

 to rear the generation which is next to bear, the 

 burden. Our people should take more interest in 

 its advance. 



It was characteristic of Pasteur that his 

 scientific enthusiasm was closely interwoven with 

 his very earnest and sincere patriotism. Even of 

 an academic problem awaiting solution he vehe- 



