d guinea-pigs and dogs that are so
essential to the work of the laboratory are kept. On the terrace
in front is a bronze statue of a boy struggling with a rabid dog--a
reminder of the particular labor of the master-worker which led directly
to the foundation of the institution. It will be remembered that it
was primarily to give Pasteur a wider opportunity to apply his newly
discovered treatment for the prevention of rabies that the subscription
was undertaken which led finally to the erection of the buildings before
us and brought the Pasteur Institute in its present form into being.
Of the other aims and objects of the institution I shall speak more at
length in a moment.

I have just said that the building before us is in effect the monument
of the great savant. This is true in a somewhat more literal sense than
might be supposed, for the body of Pasteur rests in a crypt at its base.
The personal labors of the great discoverer were practically ended at
the time when the institute was opened in 1888, on which occasion,
as will be remembered, the scientific representatives of all nations
gathered in Paris to do honor to the greatest Frenchman of his
generation. He was spared to the world, however, for seven years more,
during which time he fully organized the work of the institution along
the lines it has since followed, and was, of course, the animating
spirit of all the labors undertaken there by his devoted students and
assistants. He is the animating spirit of the institution still, and it
is fitting that his body should rest in the worthy mausoleum within the
walls of that building whose erection was the tangible culmination
of his life labors. The sarcophagus is a shrine within this temple of
science which will serve to stimulate generations of workers here to
walk worthily in the footsteps of the great founder of the institution.
For he must be an unimaginative person indeed who, passing beneath that
arch bearing the simple inscription "Ici Repose Pasteur," could descend
into the simple but impressive mausoleum and stand beside the massive
granite sarcophagus without feeling the same kind of mental uplift which
comes from contact with a great and noble personality. The pretentious
tomb of Galileo in the nave of Santa Croce at Florence, and the crowded
resting-place of Newton and Darwin in Westminster Abbey, have no such
impressiveness as this solitary vault where rests the body of Pasteur,
isolated in death as t