The Belief İn İmmortality And The Worship Of The Dead

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  The theme here broached is a vast one, and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in
  immortality and the worship of the dead, as these have been found among the other principal
  races of the world both in ancient and modern times. Of all the many forms which natural religion
  has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far-reaching an influence on human life as
  the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead; hence an historical survey of this most
  momentous creed and of the practical consequences which have been deduced from it can hardly
  fail to be at once instructive and impressive, whether we regard the record with complacency as a
  noble testimony to the aspiring genius of man, who claims to outlive the sun and the stars, or
  whether we view it with pity as a melancholy monument of fruitless labour and barren ingenuity
  expended in prying into that great mystery of which fools profess their knowledge and wise men
  confess their ignorance.