Natural Religion in India the Rede Lecture
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honours and attentions paid to the dead, among primitive societies in India, seemed to me in- tended to please and provide for the ghost ; and some trace of this purpose may b6 discerned in almost every stage or gradation of funeral services among Hindus, from the lowest to the highest, from the offerings made to the dead and the wailing prayers of the rude tribes, up to the formal oblations prescribed by the Brahmanic High Church. You may have heard, for example, that the right to inherit prop...erty is by Hindu law co-extensive with the duty of making certain periodical offerings to the ancestral spirits.
I agree, therefore, that mourning in its ori- ginal meaning partook largely of the nature of worship. I think the prayers were not for the dead man but addressed to him, that the funeral service was usually an offer or an attempt to do him service. And I find reason to believe that w^henever a spirit became gradually translated to some higher degree of divinity, the earlier pro- pitiation of the wandering ghost passed into a NATURAL RELIGION IN INDIA.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
honours and attentions paid to the dead, among primitive societies in India, seemed to me in- tended to please and provide for the ghost ; and some trace of this purpose may b6 discerned in almost every stage or gradation of funeral services among Hindus, from the lowest to the highest, from the offerings made to the dead and the wailing prayers of the rude tribes, up to the formal oblations prescribed by the Brahmanic High Church. You may have heard, for example, that the right to inherit prop...erty is by Hindu law co-extensive with the duty of making certain periodical offerings to the ancestral spirits.
I agree, therefore, that mourning in its ori- ginal meaning partook largely of the nature of worship. I think the prayers were not for the dead man but addressed to him, that the funeral service was usually an offer or an attempt to do him service. And I find reason to believe that w^henever a spirit became gradually translated to some higher degree of divinity, the earlier pro- pitiation of the wandering ghost passed into a NATURAL RELIGION IN INDIA.
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