[131] 'Intorno alla Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [132] 'La Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [133] 'L'Incinerazione dei Cadaveri è ammissibile?' [134] 'La Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [135] _Ibid._ [136] 'Sulla Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [137] 'La Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [138] 'La Cremazione dei Cadaveri umani.' The above represent for the most part the chief writers upon the subject of cremation in Italy. And, as will be noticed, all, with one notable exception, were learned professors and doctors. The only productions inimical to the scheme were the dissertation of Dr. Rota, which was sentimental to a degree,[139] the brochure of Professor F. Zinno, which might come under the same category,[140] and some utterances upon the subject from clerical points of view.[141] The muses were also invoked on both sides, and poems upon the subject have been published by Dr. A. Moretti and Professor Polizzi.[142] [139] 'L'Incinerazione dei Cadaveri è ammissibile?' [140] 'Inumazione, Imbalzamazione e Cremazione dei Cadaveri.' [141] In the 'Osservatore Cattolico.' [142] In the 'Annali di Chimica,' &c. In Switzerland cremation has found an admirable and indefatigable champion in Dr. Wegman-Ercolani, whose articles and works[143] upon the subject have excited the greatest attention. Owing to his exertions two associations have been founded, at Aran and at Zurich, and others are in process of organisation, for the purpose of instilling into the minds of the public the superior advantages which this method of disposal of the dead offers over the ordinary mode of burial. A public meeting held at Zurich in 1874 was attended by 2,000 persons, and a speech was made then by Dr. Ercolani, in the course of which the sentimental objections raised by Professors Blermer and Clœtia were energetically combated. On the same occasion Dr. Goll also defended incineration as a sanitary scheme. The Rev. Pastor Long followed, with some interesting remarks upon the religious side of the question, one of them akin to the now celebrated saying of his Grace the Bishop of Manchester, to the effect that with the Creator resurrection was as easy from the ashes as from the dust of a skeleton.[144] Mr. Long declared the urn to be a symbol far more poetical than the tomb or the mausoleum. [143] In the 'Gazette d'Andelfingen.' See also 'Leichenverbrennung als rationellste Bestattungsart.' [144] The same remark was made by Napoleon at St. Helena, when expressing his wish that his body might be burnt.