THEORIES OF PARADISE.
[BY ANDREW LANG.]
diored in
a future
~ life the
Almast very people has life, and right have hold that in the good will be happy and the bad will be punisher, At scertain moment say, roughly, about 1000 B.C., in or near the age of Homer and of Saul King of Israel, the view of the future was very far trum cheerful. The mould in the Hebrow In the Skoal had but a shadowy existence, Homerie Hados, though old friends and foes, and famous dead ladies were together, Achilles com- -plained of the wout of seluality and of the sun- light. Howeyli liefoz be the thrall of a laud- lees man on earth than king over all the dead." The spirits had nothing in particular to do, though the wraith of Horacles was shooting birds with a bow and legal affairs were found interesting: otherwise Hinos could not hate beou judging the pleas brought before him by
It is an old beef
That on some solemn store, Beyond the sphere of grief,
Dear friends shall meet once more. Boyonil the sphere of Time,
And Bin, and Fate's control, Serene in changeless primo
Of body and of soul.
Inat creed I fain would koop!, This hope I'll not foroge: Efornal bo the sleep
pless to waken so.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1910.
Certainly it would be ridiculous to speak of Uso heathen natives of New Guinea ne" with. out.hopa" for themselros and even for the dogs and cats that have been dear to them, Che might dispouse with the pigg
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the spirits. Nobody was being tormoris, LONDON STOUT.
except souls of perjurore and of men who had personally lajured the Gods.
Fiular's conception of Paradise was much happier: all were in full rigour and doing better than on earth the athletic feats in which on earth they had excelled. As for Nocrates, he looked forward to the now life thoroughly social, and the great expect to have good talk"
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with
and wise who had lirol before he day. Thin Paradiso to the heart of Dr. Johnson, The folt gloomily that a musical Paradise offend man who rather detested little enjoyment to music as a more interruption of convorsution
As a rule the Paradise of the least civilised pooples in Pindario. There will be feasts, and plenty game for the virtuous, and as a rile,
of there is a Lord of the Dean, or the Supreme Being himself, who judges the souls and sends Bat the way to Bach to his own place.
Penulis is lard and boat by dangers: a crossed, spares to Bridge of Dread.
uncountered. monsters to be
be roided,
The Fijians have a traditional itinerary to grade the soul on his way, like the great Book of the Dead
Auvient Egypt, anek
the similar revelations in the verses of the Greek Thoro in fountain whenco
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Orphic philosophy. (adeirabled raught) thesouls drink forgelfuiness (a
the water of Lathe that tows out of the care of Morpheus. Thus, the ions of all man kind concerning the unknown are very similar.
Inak the savage how If you
knows
ons what the next world is like he not nasally refers to reports brought back from beyond the burns by some one who died, went thither, and returned sgin. In Now Cabstonia one of these men, seeing hist nome kind of evidence for his voyagu w
curried back to earth the feathers of some paradise, of a posics wholly unknown in his ownisland. In New Britain, Hars Dr, Leosu in his now and interesting look, Melanesiané and when Π man dies two men
night, or
Torf him the first
Bleup enol side of the corpse, and their spirits are said to accompany that of the dead man to makna abont , their fules. They tell, next day, the wonderful sighs which they witnessed thero is chief of the dead, and sometime the if ho LES now.com spirit is tormented, especially bom niggardly in this life, or broken the rues of otipotto or of what we call forbidden degrees. After getting his share of pum, or thumping, the body et svine unsghty spirit is exiled in the spimal. The place of souls is curiously indeter minute; it appears to be not auknari isles, or beyond Ocean, bat in andimensional space, or otor. If our eyes were turned so that what
inside
the head were now ostsin, we thanld I not so that mateng nimi was very near to us, unl far away at all," a guss which reminds us of some
They say that shou modern speculation.
or
wo hear
man dies his soul goes to the spirit laud and moots his friends there, but if they do not win! him at that time they all drive him away, and so Mr. Fison reports urns to life again." returns that dying Fijians ut unusually any they their dend friends about them, and similar stories among our friends, They are st least consolatory. Das vory odd case meantly ported to ras was this: A man was dying in a Little Scottish town, whom he anddenly aid, as if corBising some pornon," Eb, ya'll be frae the Whey Eat?" Ho the expired. On inquiry it was found that a man had died, coincidentally, at szarsi tavern, the Whey Pat, at a few milce of distance: Apparently on his way to matano nion he had looked in on the moribund.
B
At Tube Tubo, in Slade Island (South-East Now Guinea) the miires have very defaite and somewhat original ideas about. Paradise A burial a
Alter
I a grout time lighted beside the grave, for the spirit is very cold, and, without warmth, would be unfit for its journey. When he starts he robes, through a cavo, a subterranoun and. submarine passage, whence he at last emerge into spirit land. Ifis kiusfolk there ask him, rather
For what reason have you come and he answers in a courcerated fhe las cousie among formula of words If
prolation There
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with which Run, oar admissibility, and the eagerness
one would insist on blackballing assitogoller.
ΙΙ., Olhors would vote to send us to Circle be sadly suburbau sireto where we should
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