“He was not a soldier, but he was a fighter” explain with reference to context.
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Louis Pasteur was not a soldier, but he was a fighter.” What does the statement mean? Answer: Though Louis Pasteur did not join the army and become a soldier, he was a fighter because he fought various kinds of diseases through his discoveries about bacteria.
On the field of battle in one of his campaigns, Napoleon decorated for bravery a certain tanner named Pasteur. This brave soldier had an equally brave son, Louis Pasteur, born seven years after Waterloo. He was not a soldier, but he was a fighter.
He fought disease. He devoted his life to the study of what we sometimes call germs, which men of science call bacteria, a Greek word meaning ‘little rods.’ Bacteria are vegetable organisms – little rod-shaped plants – which exist in the air, water and soil, and in the bodies of animals and plants; some but not all are the causes of diseases, some convert matter into food for plants.