Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . a belief in a hereafter. It isperceived that these rude people hadhopes of a continuous existence or a re-vival of existence beyond the event ofdeath. This does not, however, implyany belief in what is called the doctrineof the immortality of the soul. Theevidences about the dead in thesemounds all point to the confidencewhich the living then had of the con-tinued material existence of the personburied. Every arti
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . a belief in a hereafter. It isperceived that these rude people hadhopes of a continuous existence or a re-vival of existence beyond the event ofdeath. This does not, however, implyany belief in what is called the doctrineof the immortality of the soul. Theevidences about the dead in thesemounds all point to the confidencewhich the living then had of the con-tinued material existence of the personburied. Every article found in connec-tion with the body is clearly related tothe ordinary daily wants and con-veniences of the deceased, and thesignificance of such association of hisimplements, and even of food, with theperson deceased, points only to the be-lief that the dead would continue as hehad been, or at least revive at sometime, in his former state of being. It must not be supposed that all of thefacts here referred to are General distri-deduced from the mounds £££* w£-locally associated with the em Europe,old ruin of Stonehenge. They havebeen gathered rather from many 342 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. and are typical of all. This species ofburial under mounds was practiced in allparts of Great Britain and nearly every-where on the Continent. The peninsulaof Denmark is almost picturesque withtumuli, and under them all are the re-mains of a prehistoric people. Perhapsnot a single county in England is with-out its monuments of this kind. Notonly in Wiltshire, but in Gloucestershireand Berkshire, and, indeed, everywhereon the island such evidences of a prim-itive people are discovered. In Ireland,also, and in Scotland, the tumuli areplentifully scattered over the country,and are indeed in some places so abun-
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