One of the most abominable modes of outrage on the dead is that where men (beasts is the proper designation for them) have gratified their animal passions by outraging the fresh corpses of young and pretty women. It seems incredible, but this violation was known in the most ancient times, and is not yet extinct in the present age. _Herodotus_ already reports in the 89th chapter of his second book, that the Egyptians of old did not deliver up the bodies of ladies of quality or the remains of young and beautiful women to the embalmers until decomposition had set in, so that these men could not have coition with them. For it was said that an embalmer had once surprised a colleague in the act of outraging the corpse of a youthful woman, and had reported the case to the authorities, who punished the inhuman offender promptly. The evening edition of the _National Zeitung_ (published at Berlin) of Nov. 21, 1874 (No. 544), relates that in Lichtenberg, which is situated near the capital of the German Empire, in the night from the 4th to 5th of November, two children, recently buried, were disinterred and removed from their coffins. On the morning of November the 5th the corpses were found on the ground near the graves,—the shrouds were torn,—and one body, that of a little two-year-old girl, bore all the signs of a recent outrage. All these sacrilegious outrages on the dead could be obviated by incineration. The avaricious would not be tempted by a small quantity of ashes in a plain urn. There would be no valuable clothing and no costly jewelry, ordinarily inhumed with some bodies, to excite rapacity. Furthermore, cremation promises the greatest possible security from vandalism. When the urn containing the remains, _i.e._, ashes, of our friends or relatives is placed in a niche in the columbarium, it can be easily guarded. One watchman, in communication (by electrical alarm) with the police department of the city, will suffice to protect the urn-hall of a columbarium. The same cannot be said of a cemetery; it would take at least a company of watchmen to properly guard the grounds of a medium-sized graveyard. Some day we will have Westminster Abbeys on a small scale, where, amid grand monuments and costly urns, the simple tablet of wood shall have its place, its inscription remaining legible, not being blotted out by the elements, as it is to-day. Each church could have its own urn-hall, and the burial ceremonies could be conducted according to the belief of the deceased. The greatest foe incineration has to contend with is the widespread antipathy against it, entertained and nursed by people who are governed more by sentiment than by reason. Which is the most poetical mode of disposal of the dead, cremation or burial? Think! think!! think!!! and you cannot fail to find out. Mr. W. Robinson, F.L.S., says:—