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Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 23: A Monthly Review; January-June, 1888
IN January 1874, exactly fourteen years ago, I ventured to write an article, which appeared in the Contemporary Review entitled Cre mation the Treatment of the Body after Death, advocating as forcibly as I could its employment instead of the method by burial in the soil. The reason assigned for taking this step was my belief, sup ported by a striking array of facts, that cremation is now a necessary sanitary precaution against the propagation of dis ease among a population rapidly increasing, and becoming large in relation to the area it occupies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
