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GIPSY RESPECT FOR THE DEAD.
Gipsies and Comteists identical as to "Religion"-- Singular Manner of Mourning for the Dead, as practised by Gipsies--Illustrations from Life--Gipsy Job and the Cigars--Oaths by the Dead--Universal Gipsy Custom of never Mentioning the Names of the Dead--Burying valuable Objects with the Dead--Gipsies, Comteists, Hegelians, and Jews--The Rev.James Crabbe.
Comte, the author of the Positivist philosophy, never felt the need of a religion until he had fallen in love; and at the present day his "faith" appears to consist in a worship of the great and wise and good among the dead.

I have already spoken of many Gipsies reminding me, by their entirely unconscious ungodliness, of thorough Hegelians.

I may now add, that, like the Positivists, they seem to correct their irreligion through the influence of love; and by a strange custom, which is, in spirit and fact, nothing less than adoring the departed and offering to the dead a singular sacrifice.
He who has no house finds a home in family and friends, whence it results that the Gipsy, despite his ferocious quarrels in the clan, and his sharp practice even with near relations, is--all things considered--perhaps the most devoted to kith and kin of any one in the world.

His very name--rom, a husband--indicates it.