The Dublin Review, Vol. 94
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 94: January April, 1894 And the more men prosper and multiply, the more great civilisations are built up, the more imperious becomes the necessity for a solution of the problem. And in this man is at once differentiated from the lower animals. Man, it will be remembered, has been ingeniously denned as "the only animal that cooks its food." We may venture to offer yet another definition: Man is the only animal that buries its dead. So much for the importance of the subject which has recently been dealt with in an exhaustive manner by a Belgian Catholic writer, a physician of distinction, Dr. Isidore Bauwens, the name of whose book stands at the head of this article. His work, entitled "History and Description of Funeral and Mourning Customs among the Principal Nations," was published in Brussels in 1888. Unfortunately this meritorious volume has attracted little if any notice, owing to the fact that it is written in Flemish, and so not generally accessible to the reading public. It deserves, however, to be more widely read, for, as far as I can judge, it not only contains a store of really interesting facts, but its able writer has gathered his materials with commendable diligence from the most recent and best authenticated sources, and hence may be relied upon as a trustworthy authority. The present paper is little else than a brief analysis of Dr. Bauwens´ book, with a selection of some of his innumerable facts, and, following him, I shall attempt to lay before the reader, in historical form, a sketch of what is known of the various methods of disposing of the dead practised by the chief races of mankind, in ancient as in modern times. The remarks or additions of my own are few and far between. As my task is purely expository, the reader will understand that I do not necessarily commit myself to all the theories or views enunciated by the author, whom I have the pleasure of introducing to English readers. 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.
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