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There Does Not Exist A Category Of Science To Which One Can Give The Name Applied Science. There Are Sciences And The Applications Of Science, Bound Together As The Fruit Of The Tree Which Bears It.

I Propose To Provide Proof... That Just As Always An Alcoholic Ferment, The Yeast Of Beer, Is Found Where Sugar Is Converted Into Alcohol And Carbonic Acid, So Always A Special Ferment, A Lactic Yeast, Is Found Where Sugar Is Transformed Into Lactic Acid. And, Furthermore, When Any Plastic Nitrogenated Substance Is Able To Transform Sugar Into That Acid, The Reason Is That It Is A Suitable Nutrient For The Growth Of The [lactic] Ferment.

These Microscopic Organisms Form An Entire World Composed Of Species, Families And Varieties Whose History, Which Has Barely Begun To Be Written, Is Already Fertile In Prospects And Findings Of The Highest Importance. The Names Of These Organisms Are Very Numerous And Will Have To Be Defined And In Part Discarded. The Word Microbe Which Has The Advantage Of Being Shorter And Carrying A More General Meaning, And Of Having Been Approved By My Illustrious Friend, M. Littré, The Most Competent Linguist In France, Is One We Will Adopt.

One Does Not Ask Of One Who Suffers: What Is Your Country And What Is Your Religion? One Merely Says: You Suffer, That Is Enough For Me.

My Present And Most Fixed Opinion Regarding The Nature Of Alcoholic Fermentation Is This: The Chemical Act Of Fermentation Is Essentially A Phenomenon Correlative With A Vital Act, Beginning And Ending With The Latter. I Believe That There Is Never Any Alcoholic Fermentation Without Their Being Simultaneously The Organization, Development, Multiplication Of The Globules, Or The Pursued, Continued Life Of Globules Which Are Already Formed.