10 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



conceptions, and accused the generals 

 of godlessness, sentencing them to 

 death. By their victory they had saved 

 Athens, but by their negligence they 

 had brought perdition upon thousands 

 of souls. "These conceptions," says 

 Fustel de Coulanges, "have governed 

 man and society through many genera- 

 tions, and have been the source from 

 which the larger part of ancient do- 

 mestic and public institutions were de- 

 rived." 



But this is not all. The primitive 

 ideas, referred to above, obtain even 

 today among various nations and tribes 

 all over the earth. From the islands 

 in the Pacific Ocean all the way up to 

 the Polar regions we meet with the 

 same creeds among uncivilized peoples, 

 the same or similar manner of burial 

 as among the ancients. 



If we were going to illustrate this, 

 the Chinese probably would be the first 

 to attract our attention, not only be- 

 cause of the antiquity of their civiliza- 

 tion, but because of their great num- 



