Burning The Dead Or Urn Sepulture By A Member Of The Royal College Of Surgeons

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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Burning the Dead, Or Urn Sepulture written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Burning the Dead, or Urn Sepulture: Religiously, Socially, and Generally Considered; With Suggestions for a Revival of the Practice, as a Sanitary Measure The Human Body; its Chemical Composition, or what it really is. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." - Gen. iii.19. "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Earth - ashes - dust, are particles of matter, and matter is anything that can he felt, seen, or weighed - that possesses length, breadth, and thickness; it occupies a certain space, and thus, no two portions of matter can occupy the same space at the same time. The mortal body of man is formed of matter, it is material; his immortal soul is immaterial, spiritual, and therefore it can and does, during life, occupy the same space as the body, and at the same time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.