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ii4 BfiGHAMP OR PASTEUR?
means of inaccurate assertions, (2) by the sellers of micro-
scopic seeds on the Pasteur system, who have realised big
benefits at the expense of the cultivators, (3) by the
complicity of the Academies and Public Bodies, which,
without any investigation, reply to the complaints of the
—
cultivators 'But sericulture is saved! Make use of
Pasteur's system!' However, everybody is not disposed to
employ a system that consists in enriching oneself by the
ruination of others."
Perhaps the greatest harm occasioned by Pasteur's
jealousy was the hindrance he set up to notice being taken
of Bechamp's work, particularly in regard to his cell doc-
trine and microzymian theories. So much did Pasteur
make it his effort to flout these ideas that, actually,
Members of the Academy, influenced by friendly motives,
begged Professor Bechamp to drop the very use of the
word "microzyma"! Thus the misfortune came about
that, instead of being encouraged, science was held back,
and at every turn the Professor of Montpellier found him-
self hampered in the work that, so he believed, would lay
the foundations of cytology and physiology and elucidate
the processes of the anatomical elements in birth and life,
in health and disease, in death and in disruption.