There was in Pasteur a need to share and to relieve, a humanitarian feeling which made him, so to speak, fellow citizen of the whole world.
... He replied: "We, French, bent under the pain of the mutilated Fatherland, show once again that great pain can give rise to great thoughts and great actions. I make a toast to the peaceful struggle of science.
Two contrary laws seem to be in conflict today: a law of blood and death which, by imagining new means of combat every day, obliges peoples to be always ready for the battlefield... and a law of peace, of work, of salvation, which thinks only of freeing men from the evils that afflict them. One seeks only violent conquests; the other, the relief of mankind.
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