DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 7 



no written communication, but from 

 their graves they speak to the present 

 day intelligibly and. plainly of their be- 

 lief in a life to come. Behold the mon- 

 uments defying time and decay, which 

 these people have erected in memory of 

 their deceased. The sepulchres of the 

 Egyptian kings to this very day arouse 

 our amazement and admiration. 



What was it, then, that induced 

 these peoples of early times to bestow 

 such extraordinary labor on the places 

 of their last rest? It certainly was 

 their belief that the graves contained 

 not only the lifeless body, but also the 

 living soul. The funeral ceremonies 

 evidently show, as Fustel de Coulanges 

 says, that when the body was laid in 

 the grave it was thought that some- 

 thing yet alive was placed there at the 

 same time. The soul was born simul- 

 taneously with the body; death did not 

 separate them; they were both enclosed 

 together in the grave. In olden times 

 people felt so fully assured that a man 

 lived in the tomb, that they never 



