Word: food
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...body was provided for while in the tomb. Food was left for its subsistence. It was believed that the double would continue only while the body lived. For this reason great care was taken in embalming the body and in the construction of the tomb. It was thought possible to increase the chance of the continuance of the double by placing in the tomb statues of the dead. Then arose the practice of covering the walls with representations of offerings of food, with magic formulae for transforming these representations into food...
Among the races whose ideas are being considered it was believed that the spirit possessed a form similar to the earthly body with all its attendant needs of food, fire, clothing and the like. Social relations were not thought to change in the spirit world and Job's conception of a place where "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest" was by no means common among people of the lower cultus. A striking example of the idea of continuance was found in the Fiji Islands, where a son, through the highest motives of filial duty...
Among other people affection for the deceased was the motive in the cultus of the dead. Food was often forced into the mouths of the corpses and left with the bodies in the tombs. From providing food for the dead it was a simple transition to supply them with other comforts. Scores of human beings were sacrificed in order to add splendor to the entry of the dead into the new existence...
...instruction, be restrained to its own function as the guide to something better. And that something better is Literature. Let us rescue ourselves from what Milton calls "these grammatic flats and shallows." The blossoms of language have certainly as much value as its roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work...
...this system or to the introduction of any system which seems largely similar. They believe that the opportunity for companionship and leisurely intercourse with intimate friends is one of the greatest services Memorial renders. The opportunity is so highly prized that many students, even when dissatisfied with the food furnished, still prefer to remain in the hall in order not to be deprived of it. When students ask that this opportunity be preserved, they ask, not that a sentimentality shall be indulged, but that a powerful and beneficial influence in their lives shall not be checked...