Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; July-December 1872 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 10: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; July-December 1872

I do not believe that there is another world; but I am much dis sed to believe - and, in fact, cannot pre vent myself rem believing - that, after what is generally called death, there is life in this world. I believe that, in that rettin momentarily corrupting piece of defunct humanity, w iich we desi eats a cer se, there is still left the power of thought, an even of eeling, although the powers of motion and expression have alike departed from it; and I believe, moreover, that, as long as that mass remains together, whether it be in the totality of the flesh, or the completeness of the skeleton, that the mental sentient man is there; and hence it is that I do believe the Pagan Romans acted like sensible philo sophers, when they directed their bodies should be burned, instead of consigning them to ages of misery and abhor rence in filthy graves. - Vol. I. P. 185.

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