Show the deail lias practiced by most of tho nations of he iirth froin the earliest aw and although in pagan h may have taken the fora 0 fire can ie lit doubt that its adoption by the ancient was fur the lassit part prompted other than reason ascribe its introduction to hercula Herc ulc arbo having sworn to transmit the body of ansas to his father thought this the most wiy of ful filling his promise according ta up the burning of the dead was practice tle long before the trojan war but earliest record of it Is among the lans who inhabited the vast reak known under the of slender accounts down concerning the of of ohp ancient natives of hindustan also allude to the custom the idea of purification by was in oil a and with good reason some believed thata the body was unclean after the depart tare of alie KOVI and it was necessary that it should baj by alre ovid expressed tiit JJ beneral opinion of hie time when eald that alie soul was not separated fiort the body until the ter was consumed on the athenians invariably after a betm burned the slain |