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. ByWilliam James. 1897.
Dionysos and Immortality: The Greek Faith in Immortality asaffected 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 GeorgeH. Palmer. 1912.
Metempsychosis. By George Foot Moore. 1914.
Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire. ByClifford 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
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 inKeene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan. 26, 1893
First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, GeorgeGoldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament,I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where mylate father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor,the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for theestablishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat similar to that of theDudleian lecture, that is—one lecture to be delivered each year, on anyconvenient day between the last day of May and the first day ofDecember, on this subject, “the Immortality of Man,” said lecture not toform a part of the usual college course, nor to be delivered by anyProfessor