which is a good name. It signifies that a man is positive he knows more
about the future state than God! Upon his death-bed this Monsieur
Littre,--although he had been the means of sending thousands of other
souls before their Maker, rebellious and unredeemed--this same Monsieur
Littre dared not to meet God with his Positivism on his soul, and
embraced the offices of the Church with great relief. Men, before
entering upon a course which flings away the only hope a man has,