An Address Delivered at the Consecration of Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton, Wednesday, August 7, 1850 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Consecration of Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton, Wednesday, August 7, 1850

The best sentiments of the heart have prompted man in all ages to provide carefully and affectionately for the remains of the dead. Places of Repose, Cities of the Silent, Fields of Peace, Cities of the Dead, - by these, and by names alike well chosen, have the places of interment been designated in ancient times. This disposal of the dead, ever a grateful and instructive, though a solemn and trying office, devolves upon the living. Neither nature, reason, nor scripture, seem to have determined beyond all human variance the most acceptable method and circumstances of this disposal. It has differed accord ingly, history and experience tell us, with the progress of reason and philosophy, with the unrelenting dictates of superstition, and with ever-varying taste. The methods of disposing of the dead which have obtained in different ages, and among the various tribes and nations, constitute a most interesting por tion of the history of the race. The subject, both in ancient and modern time, has attracted the attention of the curious, who have furnished full and most engaging results, important alike for their bearings on the condition and progress of man as a being related to a life beyond the grave, on the advancement of science, and on the truth of religion. Into so wide a field does the subject open, that it must obviously be passed by here. We may observe only.

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