Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-12-05
THE LATE NJ. PAsTEUR.
why EntCrmcnt in tho pnthcon wi
Declined by nis Family.

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Declined by his Family.
The Times Paris correspondent
writes:-"Mme. Pasteur--that is
to say, the Pasteur family, for
they have always been admirably
united-refused to allow an inter
ment in the Fatheon, where the
Republic has created a Valhalla,
and where Carnot already rests
by the side Of Victor Hugo. The
family, however, had several rei-
sons for objecting to the Pantheon
The one which has been assigned
is among these, but is not the
chief. NJ. Pasteur, it is true, had
an actual love for his institute.
He was a man of singular simpli-
city and frugality. Material con-
siderations never entered his
head. Merely by his theory of
fern ents, which has enriched
those brewers throughout the
world who first adopted it and
exported "PasteurIsed' beer, NJ.
Pasteur might have made a large
fortune. He did not derive the
slightest lroft from it, and while
those brewers who adopted it
were distancing all their competi-
tons, NJ, Pasteur was carrying on
warm controversies against the
theorists of Mines University, who
combated his system. In the
courtyard of a large Stockholm
brewery, indebted for its pros
perity to his system, there is
statue of Nj. Pasteur, and his
portrait by Bonnat adorns the
brewery Offices, for the brewer,
whom the system had cost moth
ing, wished at least to testify his
admiration and gratitude. To the
end of his life NJ. Pasteur never
thought of profit for himself or
his family, and when France,
proud of having given birth to
such a man, voted pensions,
modest ones indeed, for him and
them, his whole thoughts were
absorbed in the expense of his
beloved Institute. 1t had been
undertaken and carried out with
inadequate resources, and he was
anxious as to the material and
financial burden which he had
taken on himself. For his cher
ished institute he became almost
suppliant. If England he
said once, which is so favorable
to humanitarian enterprises,
would but send me some money,
what good it would do ne and
the world" Now, in deciding
that his remains should rest in a
vault Of the Pasteur Institute, the
family knew they were carrying
out his constant and dearest wish.
This, however, was not the
only reason which prompted the
refusal of the Pantheon. M.
Pasteur was Catholic-in fact, a
staunch Catholic, as are also all
those vino are connected with him.
The secularising of st. Genevieve
necessarily hurt the convictions of
all those whose ideas were in
unison with his, and L am con-
vinced that even if he could not
have been buried in the Pasteur
Institute, they would have pre-
ferred tomb and a monument in
the Montmartre Cemetery to the
Pantheon. Lastly, the interments
in the Pantheon are always in
temporary tomb. In the country,
the institutions of which huctu-
ate according to the voice of the
noisy class, who alone are listen
ed to, everything, even the rest
ing-pluce of the dead, is subject
to change"
II. Pasteur has left will, in
which he simply says, Il leave
to my wife all that the law per-
mits me to leave her. May my
children never neglect the law of
duty ever to preserve towards
their mother the feeling of tendor-
ness which she deserves