The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint

The grave, hallowed by religion and the queen of arts, poetry, has become to us the emblem of eternal rest—something that is beautiful; something in which we may sleep long and...

Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then And guided still the steps of happy men In the light leading-strings of careless joy! Before the bed of death...

Our great American poet, Edgar Allan Poe, says: “To be buried alive is beyond question the most terrific of all extremes which have ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.”

of corporations refusing to allow such incorporation, the society not wishing to organize under the general corporation law, whereby the par value of shares must be $100, and al...

The battle between torch and spade is not new; it has been going on since early times. Tertullian, a writer of the second century, declares that many of the Gentiles were oppose...

In beginning the consideration of the various processes of cremation, I ought to speak of the ancient pyre first; but since it was fully described in a previous chapter, I deem...

“The aggregate of such questionable expenditures over the United States would amount to billions of dollars, a sum truly alarming in size; and this criminal expenditure has been...

After a battle is over, the field of carnage is covered with the dead. I think it cannot be questioned that these are disposed of in a very careless manner in time of war; not o...

_Dear Sir_,—In reply to your request that I should write an introduction to a work which you are about to compose on cremation, I am placed in the great difficulty of knowing no...