Feeling

People are prone to think of scientists as coldblooded, ruthlessly matter-of-fact beings, possessing the milk of human kindness in amounts inversely proportionate to the extent of their knowledge. The October issue of The Scientific Monthly contains two bits of evidence. In a highly technical account of the state of knowledge of the genes (constituent parts of sex cell chromosomes, which are believed to determine an organism's inherited characteristics), Dr. Walter L. Treadway of the U. S. Public Health Service paused to say: "In none of the experiments discussed in this article have the animals been given any painful treatments."

Concluding a professional estimate of The Medical Work of Pasteur, wrote M. Emile Roux, Director of the Pasteur Institute (Paris) : "The work of Pasteur is admirable. It shows his genius, but one must have lived intimately with the master to know of the goodness of his heart."