Life of Pasteur

Inspiring Career of a Great and Modest Man of Science PARIS, Sept. 28 — Prof. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished chemist and discoverer of the Pasteur treatment for the cure of rabies, is dead. —– Louis Pasteur was pre-eminently a man of his time, of this very moment. His name and the names of the young physicians who became his pupils …

Paris, Sept. 20, 1895 — The following information concerning the closing hours of Prof. Pasteur’s life has been obtained by the correspondent of The United Press, who has just returned from Villeneuve: Prof. Pasteur’s condition became seriously worse on the evening of Friday last. Albuminuria was observed, the heart became very weak, and painful and violent spasms became frequent. About …

It was Louis Pasteur who continued the spirit of the Ecole Polytechnique into late-Nineteenth century France. He saw very clearly the acute crisis that France had been going through since 1815, and he identified precisely the problem that had crippled the nation since the Congress of Vienna. The joy of discovery had been killed in the school system, and the …

There may be negative people who will complain to you that Pasteur was an imperialist and a Bonapartist. Don’t bother with that sort of criticism. Those who concentrate their energies on the mistakes of great men, destroy, in themselves, their own ability to understand wisdom. On the other hand, those who concentrate on contributions to mankind by great men and …