The theme here broached is a vast one, and I hope to pursue it hereafter by describing the belief in
immortality and the worship of the dead, as these have been found among the other principal
races of the world both in ancient and modern times. Of all the many forms which natural religion
has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far-reaching an influence on human life as
the belief in immortality and the worship of the dead; hence an historical survey of this most ...