Question

1. In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said, remained simple at
heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew the familiar scenes of his birthplace,
and the longing to be a great artist, never wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though
after his sixteenth year he abandoned the brush forever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole
soul and energy into his work, and it was this very energy that in the end wore him out. For him, each
sufferer was something more than just a case that was to be cured. He looked upon the fight against
hydrophobia as a battle, and he was absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured
children, particularly, moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he
would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when sheer physical exhaustion
made him give up his active work. He retired to the estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his
kennels for the study of rabies, and there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery
Radot, has said, “practicing the Gospel virtues.”
2. “He revered the faith of his fathers”, says the same writer, “and wished without ostentation or
mystery to receive its aid during his last period.”
3. The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best summed up in a
sentence that he is reputed once to have uttered, concerning the materialism of many of his
contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his own: “The more I contemplate the mysteries of
Nature, the more my faith becomes like that of a peasant.”
4. But even then in retirement he loved to see his former pupils, and it was then he would reiterate his
life principles: “Work”, he would say, “never cease to work.” So well had he kept this precept that he
began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.
5. Finally, on September 27, 1895, when someone leant over his bed to offer him a cup of milk, he said

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sadly: “I cannot”, and with a look of perfect resignation and peace, seemed to fall asleep. He never
again opened his eyes to the cares and sufferings of a world, which he had done so much to relieve
and to conquer. He was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.
6. Thus passed, as simply as a child, the man whom the French people were to vote at a plebiscite as the
greatest man that France had ever produced. Napoleon, who has always been considered the idol of
France, was placed fifth.

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7. No greater tribute could have been paid to Louis Pasteur, the tanner’s son, the scientist, the man of
peace, the patient worker for humanity.
a. Answer the following questions choosing the most appropriate option from those given in
brackets:
i. Louis Pasteur’s faith increased when.............
1. he received its aid during
last period
2. he became a scientist

3. he contemplated the
mysteries of nature
4. both 1 & 2

ii. He did so much to relieve and conquer....................
1. cares and sufferings of the world
2. his cares and sufferings
iii. Louis Pasteur was....................
1. a tanner’s son
2. patient worker of humanity
iv. His life principle was.....................
1. never work continuously
2. never stop working

3. humanity
4. none of the above
3. the man of peace
4. all of the above
3. never work strenuously
4. work strenuously

b. Answer the following questions briefly:
i. Even accolades and honours did not change the simple man that Pasteur was. Give reasons.
ii. How did Pasteur view those who suffered from diseases?
iii. How did Pasteur engage himself in the estate?
iv. What advice did he always give to his pupils?
v. How did France, the country of his birth, honour this great scientist?
vi. What was the greatest tribute paid to Pasteur by the French?
c. Pick out one word from the passage that means the same as:
i. an instruction taken as a principle (para 4)
ii. vote by the people of the country to decide a matter of national importance (para 6)

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