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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD, AND MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. Tim interest which the author has felt in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn, the first of its kind in the United States, has in a measure grown out of his personal connection with its foundation and subsequent development. The project of Mount Auburn was originally conceived, the preparatory meetings called, the land selected and engaged, and the larger public structures, the gate, chapel, tower, and iron fence, designed by himself at different times. The pleasure of witnessing, through so many years, the progressive improvement of this beautiful spot has been enhanced by the interest and active cooperation of many of our distinguished and valued citizens. While the subject was of recent agitation, the following Address was delivered at the hall of the Masonic Temple, before the Boston Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge: ?] The manner in which we dispose of the remains of our deceased friends is a subject which, within the last few years, has occupied a greater share than formerly of the public attention in our own vicinity. It involves not only considerations which belong to the general convenience, but includes also the gratification of individual taste, and the consolation ofprivate sorrow. Although, in a strictly philosophical view, this subject possesses but little importance except in relation to the convenience of survivors, yet so closely are our sympathies enlisted with it, so inseparably do we connect the feelings of the living with the condition of the dead, that it is in vain that we attempt to divest ourselves of its influence. It is incumbent on us, therefore, to analyze, as far as we may be able, the principles which belong to a correct view of this subject; since it is only by understanding these...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217024563 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217024564 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 194 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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