Show Louis Pasteur We do not yet see the end of Pasteurs wonderful labors Disease first mitigated I and finally stamped out industries revived re-vived and prosperity insured true knowledge knowl-edge of actual causes instead of illusory the I reasoning on empirical hypotheses scientific method adopted in every branch I of medical practice the abandonment of speculative error and the acceptance of actual truth are among the working results re-sults of that grand bit of human mechanism mechan-ism Louis Pasteurs brain By his labors we see even more clearly the universality uni-versality of organic liiea truer materialization ma-terialization than is to be found in the dreams of mystics or the visions of j ecstatics and by his investigations the chain which binds all nature into i one independent and interacting whole i becomes even more visible in its j links and more solid in its clasp In i steadof palpable forces acting by chemical chemi-cal combinations and molecular changes as occult alchemists transmutation of metal we have the tangible matter the form of which we can see the modus H operandi of which we can trace Instead of the hand of God and the ghostly mystery mys-tery of superhuman and viewless influences influ-ences as the causes of disease we have I organisms with which we can deal andover and-over which we have absolute power Instead In-stead of dry destruction we have lifeat I once the parent and the product of death I Life lies about us everywhere unseen unheard but as potent and as active as I the cosmic forces which have formed and now maintain the equilibrium of I the spheres The infinitely little is the infinitely mighty and that I which we call death is but the release of I energies and the multiplication of activities activi-ties whereby the unit is disintegrated into countless millions of organisms When we weary of the sterile things of tho world we have always the rich and fertile I I fer-tile fields of science for our rest and refreshment re-freshment When we are harrassed and I disturbed perplexed and dismayed by the multiplicity of groundless faiths and baseless beliefs pressed on our acceptance accept-ance we have always facts such as Pasteur Pas-teur has proved to make us feel once more on solid ground where what isisand where that phantasmal disarray set forth by the lovers and makers of miracles has no p1aceE Lynn Linton in the Fortnightly Fort-nightly Review |