Metchinikoff at Work

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 November 1915, Page 3

Metchinikoff at Work

i _, i i A ii "Uie Pasteur iustitutt; presenis ia iher a dead appearance at present. Most oi the laboratory a&sisLauts liavdeparted lor the front, wnere, ludeeu. two doctors have met tlieir death, says the Timer's Paris correapondont. "I'ar removed ironi tliew (pieation. remains Professor Metuunikoff, wlio i still elaborating his 'weli-iiuoAvii uieoi ito concerning the preservation of en ergy in old age, and is occupied wi'tj otner problems as completely foreign t'i the slaujjlitvriug of tens of tliout. amis at the front, \Vlien 1 willed upon Jiim the other afternoon ne was eugag ed on a memorial concerned with m< ■ death of bhe silk motE. The yo>fes so- works on in the seclusion of hi laboratory, keenly interested in the wa. a» a human problem, anxious even i< < discuss it with th'ose who can bring iiur. now idea* about it, yet dwelling placid ly in his teinplo of science.

"As to the future of the race or tJu , future of civilization, the veteran scientist declined to__lie pessimistic. He felt that, on the contrary, a real pacificifcf would flourish aTTor the war when science and the arts wouldi work with redoubled energy" and effectiveness. Young scientists have been kHled, unfortuuatly, but happily there are ottiors t.> take their place; the regenerative iliiiilities of the" human race avovo iuh exhausted, and he looked fonvard to a fruitful'peace, if only the Germans were hoaten."