6 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



of men in very low stages of civiliza- 

 tion, and, in fact, that it is of the most 

 general interest. 



The reason for this evidently lies in 

 the instinctive belief that the body con- 

 tains something which is immortal, and 

 which in the life hereafter the soul can- 

 not dispense with. 



In its first historic form the ques- 

 tion concerning the soul's relation to 

 the body deals with this relation after, 

 not before, the separation of the soul 

 and body. This latter problem emerges 

 only in very high stages of civilization, 

 and even then is of scientific interest 

 to an insignificant minority only, while 

 the question of our existence after 

 death is religious in its nature and of 

 interest to all. 



In olden times men were more fuUv 

 convinced of a continued personal ex- 

 istence after death than civilized man- 

 kind seems to be nowadays. The same 

 vivid conviction we find even in our 

 age among people in the natural state, 

 Prom the prehistoric peoples we have 



