1“In those days,” said Sarnac, “the great majority of the dead were put into coffins and buried underground. Some few people were burnt, but that was an innovation and contrary to the very materialistic religious ideas of the time. This was a world in which you must remember people were still repeating in perfect good faith a creed which included ‘the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.’ Intellectually old Egypt and her dreaming mummies still ruled the common people of the European world. The Christian creeds were themselves mummies from Lower Egypt. As my father said on one occasion when he was discussing this question of cremation: ‘It might prove a bit orkward at the Resurrection. Like not ‘aving a proper wedding garment so to speak...
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