[45] “The days of our years are three-score years and ten, and if by reason of strength they may be four-score years, yet is there strength, labor, and sorrow for it is cut off and we fly away.”
[46] Oriental Studies, Boston, 1894.
[47] Das Lebensalter in der Jüdischen Literatur, 1875.
[48] M. D. Conway, The Wandering Jew, 1881, and T. Kappstein, Ahesver in der Weltpoesie, 1906.
[49] Greek Life and Thought, London, 1896.
[50] E. Bard, in Chinese Life in Town and Country, p. 39, says, “In the worship of ancestors we have the keystone to the arch of the social structure of this strange country [China]. Hundreds of millions of living Chinese are bound to thousands of millions of dead ones. The cult induces parents to marry off their children almost before maturity so that they should have offspring to make their lives after death pleasant by means of worship and oblations. No matter how great the squalor, there must be many children in the family,” etc. “Funeral expenses for parents are the most sacred of all obligations, and it is not uncommon for the living to sell their estates to the very last foot and often their houses to be able to render proper homage to the deceased.” Presents of coffins, elaborate ones, are often very common. The sons of a deceased parent must at least wear mourning for three years, though this has been lately reduced to twenty-seven months. The expenses of elaborate funerals are enormous.
[51] Mahaffy, Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander, p. 34.
[52] The Greek Genius and Its Meaning to Us, 1912.
[53] Republic, 329.
[54] Talks with Athenian Youth, tr. anon., New York, 1893, 178 p.