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Excerpt from Pasteur as the Founder of Stereo-Chemistry
Many of us recollect Pasteur's visit to Edinburgh thirteen years ago, when he was one of the five delegates Who represented the Institute of France at the celebration of the Tercentenary of the University of Edinburgh, and can recall his enthusiastic reception by the students and the words of kindly wisdom he addressed to them.
I feel very highly honoured by having been asked by the organisers of this meeting to address you. It is not an easy thing to do. I have to speak to representatives of the highest culture of France and to fellow citizens active and able in the prosecution of all branches of learning. A teacher. Must carefully consider what he says to his pupils; a scientific worker does not, without a good deal of thought, lay his views before his colleagues, but habit enables us to do these things without much embarrassment. It is more difficult to address such an audience as this on a very special scientific subject. I can only hope that those of you who are acquainted with stereochemistry may not think that I treat Pasteur' 3 great work in too slight a way, and that I may not be intolerably tedious to those of you Whose studies have not led them in that direction.
Perhaps I should apologise to our French visitors for addressing them in English, but I do indeed believe that mutual intelligibility will be better attained if I use the language with which I am most familiar.
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