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which cremation was the most com- 

 mon. The place cremation occupied in 

 ancient thought and the connection 

 fancied by our forefathers between the 

 elements which make up man's spirit- 

 ual body, may be gathered from Victor 

 Rydberg's researches in Germanic 

 mvthologv. 



"The popular ecclesiastical dualism 

 of soul and body,'' says Rydberg, "was 

 as foreign to the Veda-Aryans as to 

 the heathen Germanic race. Accord- 

 ing to the latter, man consisted of six 

 different elements: First, the earthlv 

 element of which the visible body is 

 made; second, a vegetative; third, an 

 animal; fourth, the so-called Uten (Utr), 

 an inner body shaped after the gods, 

 and invisible to earthly eyes; fifth, the 

 soul; sixth, the spirit." 



The earthly and the vegetative ele- 

 ments were already joined in the trees, 

 Ask and Embla, when the gods came 

 and changed them into the first human 

 pair. Each of the three gods gave them 

 separate gifts. From Lodur they re- 



