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Ingersoll Lectures on Immortality
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Immortality and the New Theodicy. By George A. Gordon. 1896.
Human Immortality. Two supposed Objections to the Doctrine. By William James. 1897.
Dionysos and Immortality: The Greek Faith in Immortality as affected by the rise of Individualism. By Benjamin Ide Wheeler. 1898.
The Conception of Immortality. By Josiah Royce. 1899.
Life Everlasting. By John Fiske. 1900.
Science and Immortality. By William Osler. 1904.
The Endless Life. By Samuel M. Crothers. 1905.
Individuality and Immortality. By Wilhelm Ostwald. 1906.
The Hope of Immortality. By Charles F. Dole. 1907.
Buddhism and Immortality. By William S. Bigelow. 1908.
Is Immortality Desirable? By G. Lowes Dickinson. 1909.
Egyptian Conceptions of Immortality. By George A. Reisner. 1911.
Intimations of Immortality in the Sonnets of Shakespeare. By George H. Palmer. 1912.
Metempsychosis. By George Foot Moore. 1914.
Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire. By Clifford Herschel Moore. 1918.
PAGAN IDEAS OF
IMMORTALITY DURING THE
EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
The Ingersoll Lecture, 1918
Pagan Ideas of
Immortality During the
Early Roman Empire
By
Clifford Herschel Moore, Ph.D., Litt.D.
Professor of Latin in Harvard University
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Cambridge
Harvard University Press
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1918
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP
Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan. 26, 1893
First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, George Goldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament, I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where my late father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor, the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for the establishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat similar to that of the Dudleian lecture, that is—one lecture to be delivered each year, on any convenient day between the last day of May and the first day of December, on this subject, “the Immortality of Man,” said lecture not to form a part of the usual college course, nor to be delivered by any Professor or Tutor as part of his usual routine of instruction, though any such Professor or Tutor may be appointed to such service. The choice of said lecturer is not to be limited to any one religious denomination, nor to any one profession, but may be that of either clergyman or layman, the appointment to take place at least six months before the delivery of said lecture. The above sum to be safely invested and three fourths of the annual interest thereof to be paid to the lecturer for his services and the remaining fourth to be expended in the publishment and gratuitous distribution of the lecture, a copy of which is always to be furnished by the lecturer for such purpose. The same lecture to be named and known as “the Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man.”
PAGAN IDEAS OF IMMORTALITY DURING THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
