The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-31
A MORNING WITH AUGUsTE COMTE.


guSLe COME, land work the whole day,
except on Wednesdays, when L 90 out
to preside over the SOciete POsitlVe,"
and on the evenings OF which day,
NAV add, he paid weekly visit to the
tomb of ClotiIde de VauX, "and except
on Thursdays, when l conuuct my c"rre-
spOndence and receive my lriends.
receive also every evening from TO g.
and if no one comes | go to bed at 8.
Thanks to my great temperance, my
health Is perfect, and you see," pulling a
lock of his hair, 81 am not yet gray, for
| | have no ambition like all the rest
! THAT is to say, am ambitious, for wish
! to found a school like Aristotle or st.
! Paul, and one tnaL will probably be more
| important than both of those two joined
| together. And ! am full Of hope Lor the
! future, aud have mol the slightest doubts
! tnereupOn."
l then inquired as to the state OF the
subsidy, winch he told me was going ON
well, and increasing, and he gave me
printed paper, showing the details Tor
! the last three years ending in lo02. BY
! this it appeared that there were seventy
| subs cribers III the last year whose con-
triDutions amounted 10 5 6OO francs, thus
failing short OF the amount proposed TO
| be ralsed--1,0 900 francs. so stated that
| | should feel it a great pleasure to be
| allowed to contribute yearly 4lO. O0-
! sci wing the neatness of his apartments,
| lie told me they cost him l,6OO francs
! year, which was wholly ulsprUportloned
| to his income and 10 his other eXpendi-
ture. For his living, he said, thanks TO
| hls SelUQllte, femme SrreGCeLteHte, (the
! same | DeIore described, auu whom he
mentions so often in his works, ana not
| exceed $40 year. But, he observed,
| this dweuing was consecrated to him by
| 50 many souvenirs, and exercised such
a potent effect on all his ideas that he
cluns to it to the last, and hoped to live
and die there Gas he did). Formerly,
| when he took 1t, he llyeu family lie
with his wife, a woman who Aau given
| aim all kinds of trouble, from Wlom he
| was now happily separated.
! And here, he said, was the scene oil
| those "entreliens aVec ma salnte COL
leQue qui est morte IL sept ans" ana
me old man trembled and his eyes n led
! with tears at the memory thus called
up); and in this little room, ne contln-
ueu, Ga pretty ante-room TO Ghe one IN
| when we had been slttlng) many I'M
Dortant sacrameuts have already been
erlormed-marriage, presentation OF
children (I did not then understand
what hau occurred with them), &c.
During this time he was showing me
over his rooms, for | had risen TO 60.
Seeing nothing but the empty, uncar-
peted room III Whicn he received me, the
/ little drawing-rOom, cOnsecrated by her
presence and by The sacraments, his
bedroom, and one or two empty closets
: IN which were few books
copies Of his "Catechisme Posi-
Iiye.U for instance-I inquired with
) wrote "Mais c'est lie salon on je Vous
recevais tout fheure." "Bu ," | SAID
.tuere are no books there" He re
ioined, 81 never read; reading inter
|rupls thinking. 1t is necessary to be
! gin with reading, but now have givel
4 II up, and dUn'C read even scientific
works. Fifteen years ago l gave vi
reading newspapers, as | found 1T very
: iniuriUus." "BuC how, them" asked
e can you keep up with the history 0
:, ,he times?" "On," said he, diving a
Paris, and seeing SO many people as :,
= do, near OF everything tnat occurs
lie then commenced monoogue OF
journalism, which, he thought, WouC
j. some day be uriVen ouU Of th
q field by placards posted agains
!, The wall, by which thost-Il
II cluding GoVernment-HAo no mad anythlni
e TO say to the world would spea
If at the moment it was necessary, where
4 as al the present time writer's lor IN
=, press had 10 pour uuC pFoa"sioe ua
d alter day whether they had anything /
O saw or not. But Tread poetry-book
v ike those," pointing TO the volumes O
a mantel piec"; every day read chaL
ter in the elm tatlVr," and nave cop
there with COrneIlIe's beautiful Lransla
G tlor. and l advise You to get IT." as
;e mad thrown out that had never read
:, line in tnis celebrated work. In connet
IL tion with this taste for poetry may ais
It record that in the course OF THIS Ion
Ie conversation he threw out that formerl
ne used TO take stall at the Italian OF
10 era. but mad been compelled by cireun
n stances to give it up.-LSir Erskine Pc
is ry, in Nineteenth Century. -,t