190 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



heaven are pale and shadowy? The 

 doctrine of the bodily resurrection on 

 the day of judgment must be the next 

 great progress in our philosophy of 

 life. 



But unusually gifted persons, bent 

 towards idealism, had already felt in- 

 stinctively that it was not the exterior, 

 material covering that was indispensa- 

 ble to the soul. Man possessed also 

 another, a spiritual body which the 

 soul could immediately transfer to an- 

 other life. We gain a glimpse of the 

 vividness of this intuition in large 

 groups of men, when we remember that 

 the survivors even sought to annihilate 

 the material body by the flames of the 

 pyre in order to liberate the deceased 

 from his earthly ties. The great masses 

 of the population could not rise to this 

 ideal conception, and we therefore find 

 the two fundamental ideas prevailing 

 side by side. 



Here the two first epochs in man's 

 history end. They show us the inti- 

 mate connection between religious con- 



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