Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sanitary Disposal of the Dead: A Lecture Delivered by Dr. C. N. Peirce, at St. George's Hall, Sunday, October 11, 1891
Hen invited by the lecture committee of the Ethical Culture Society of Philadelphia to read before them a short paper, I was but a few mo ments in deciding that upon no subject could I more profitably entertain that body for an hour than by presenting an arranged collection of already published statements concerning the ethical and sanitary dis position of the dead.
This pleasurable task was performed without any view of the result being published; so, when the Cremation Society of Philadelphia requested my manuscript, thinking it worthy of wider publicity, I could not surrender it without placing on record my deep _obligation to the following authors, from whom I have obtained most of whatever there is of value in the paper. While I have occasionally added a word and at other times omitted one, I trust I have not in any case misrepresented the author from whom I have quoted.
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