"If we did not honor them, no one would want to be great. No one would like to be a great warrior."
"Is that the only reward a man has, to be honored after he is dead?"
"What other reward has a man?"
"Do you not think man will live hereafter?"
"When? After he dies?"
"No; how can man live after he dies, and his body is given to the winds or to the earth?"
"The white man believes he will live again?"
"Does the white man believe the yak will live again?"
"No."
"Well the yak is stronger than a man, and if the yak cannot live again, then how can man, who is not so strong, expect to do so?"