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 .. . situation where it might be protectedfrom disturbance and, we might say,sacrilege; for we may well believe thatamong the primal instincts of savagesone of the first of those sentiments whichtend to the elevation of mankind wasrespect for the body. 338 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Throughout primitive Europe the evi-dences of aboriginal burial are discover-able in hundreds of localities. TheseBurial grounds have been st
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 .. . situation where it might be protectedfrom disturbance and, we might say,sacrilege; for we may well believe thatamong the primal instincts of savagesone of the first of those sentiments whichtend to the elevation of mankind wasrespect for the body. 338 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Throughout primitive Europe the evi-dences of aboriginal burial are discover-able in hundreds of localities. TheseBurial grounds have been studied with dil-of different ages jo-ence ^v antiquaries, and may be distin- t> J * guishea. the results of the inquiry generalized. We are able to distinguishthe older places of sepulture from thenewer—the palaeolithic cavern from the pare for the funeral. Generally, afterrude pagan ceremonies, a procession wasformed and the body was borne away tobe either burned with loud lamentationor deposited in some tomb which naturehad prepared in the rocks. Could theobserver from a distant and civilized agehave been lifted up over Western Eu-rope in the epochs of aboriginal barba-. FUNERAL IN THE NEOLITHIC by Emile Bayard. more recent neolithic burial place, andstill more distinctly from the burialplaces of the age of bronze. The con-ditions of savage life in the respectiveperiods are sufficiently well known tofurnish the materials for the reconstruc-tion of that primeval half-savage societywhich prevailed for many ages. It was the custom of the tribesmenwhen one of their number died to as-semble at the scene of death and pre- rism he might have seen, winding hereand there in solemn manner, the funeralprocessions on their way to the burialplaces of the tribe. The scene was aspicturesque as instructive. The placechosen for burial or incineration wasgenerally a solitude of cliff and wildThere, about the entrance of the cavern,might be seen the gathered friends ofthe dead la
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