The law of cremation : an outline of the law relating to cremation, ancient and modern together with the rules and regulations of various cremation societies at home and abroad / by Aubrey Richardson.

  • Richardson, Aubrey
Date:
1893
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Credit: The law of cremation : an outline of the law relating to cremation, ancient and modern together with the rules and regulations of various cremation societies at home and abroad / by Aubrey Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Zhe %aw of Cremation PAET I. A KO IF FT LAW. In his exhaustive work, La Cremation et ses Bien- faits, Monsieur Alexandre Bonneau points out that une history of cremation may be divided into three epochs : I. The Vedic period, during which the practice spread among all the branches of the Aryan race ; 2. The Brahmanic period, that was signalised by the erection of pyres in all parts of India; and 3. The Buddhistic period, when the custom spread to all the peoples of he Turanian race (i.e., the non-Aryan and non-Iranian1 races), even to the shores of the Pacific Ocean and t > America. The primitive Aryans saw that death deprived al. living beings of bodily warmth, and so came to regard heat as the principle of life ; they perceived, moreover, that fire is the great purifier, and noted that, while it 1 One of the earliest great sub-races of the Aryan family that settled in the region now known as Persia. A
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