Life Comes Only From Life.

It Would Seem To Me That I Was Committing A Theft If I Were To Let One Day Go By Without Doing Some Work.

These Microscopic Organisms Form An Entire World Composed Of Species, Families And Varieties Whose History, Which Has Barely Begun To Be Written, Is Already Fertile In Prospects And Findings Of The Highest Importance. The Names Of These Organisms Are Very Numerous And Will Have To Be Defined And In Part Discarded. The Word Microbe Which Has The Advantage Of Being Shorter And Carrying A More General Meaning, And Of Having Been Approved By My Illustrious Friend, M. Littré, The Most Competent Linguist In France, Is One We Will Adopt.

Great Problems Are Now Being Handled, Keeping Every Thinking Man In Suspense; The Unity Or Multiplicity Of Human Races; The Creation Of Man 1,000 Years Or 1,000 Centuries Ago; The Fixity Of Species, Or The Slow And Progressive Transformation Of One Species Into Another; The Eternity Of Matter; The Idea Of A God Unnecessary: Such Are Some Of The Questions That Humanity Discusses Nowadays.

Time Is The Best Appraiser Of Scientific Work, And I Am Aware That An Industrial Discovery Rarely Produces All Its Fruit In The Hands Of Its First Inventor.

My Strength Lies Solely In My Tenacity.