Excerpt from The Place of Immortality in Religious Belief: A Discourse Question is as old as Job, nay, in some form or other, probably as old as humanity itself. We have but to open the tombs of prehistoric times to discover the traces of the food, the weapons, the clothes, ornaments, and utensils, with which piety and affection lightened the darkness and solitude of the grave. The question is abroad again in our day with an insistence begotten of a thousand eager movements of the mind, and it opens up a vast series of problems far beyond the scope of ancient thought. Whatever be the date of the book of Job, - whether, with an older generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.