Abstract
THIS book is an appeal to the general public on the propriety of introducing the practice of cremation, universally, into civilized communities; or, as the author puts it, βit is a plea for the burning of the dead.β He considers, and we are inclined to think he is right, that the period of fanatic and fierce opposition to cremation has passed, and has made way for a calm consideration of the subject. In 1874, he tells us, a Persian gentleman then resident in one of the Eastern States of the free and great Republic of America, who wanted to have his wife cremated, was compelled by an ignorant mob to resort to interment; but now the feeling has changed.
The Cremation of the Dead.
By Hugo Erichsen (Detroit: D. O. Haynes and Co., 1887.)
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The Cremation of the Dead . Nature 39, 219β221 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039219a0
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