Christian invention hath chiefly driven at Rites, which speak hopes of another life, and hints of a Resurrection. And if the ancient Gentiles held not the immortality of their better part, and some subsistence after death; in several rites, customes, actions and expressions, they contradicted their own opinions: wherein _Democritus_ went high, even to the thought of a resurrection,[81] as scoffingly recorded by _Pliny_. What can be more express than the expression of _Phocyllides_?[82] Or who would expect from _Lucretius_[83] a sentence of _Ecclesiastes_? Before _Plato_ could speak, the soul had wings in _Homer_, which fell not, but flew out of the body into the mansions of the dead; who also observed that handsome distinction of _Demas_ and _Soma_, for the body conjoyned to the soul and body separated from it. _Lucian_ spoke much truth in jest, when he said, that part of _Hercules_ which proceeded from _Alchmena_ perished, that from _Jupiter_ remained immortal. Thus _Socrates_[84] was content that his friends should bury his body, so they would not think they buried _Socrates_, and regarding only his immortal part, was indifferent to be burnt or buried. From such Considerations _Diogenes_ might contemn Sepulture. And being satisfied that the soul could not perish, grow careless of corporal enterrment. The _Stoicks_ who thought the souls of wise men had their habitation about the _Moon_, might make slight account of subterraneous deposition; whereas the _Pythagorians_ and transcorporating Philosophers, who were to be often buried, held great care of their enterrment. And the Platonicks rejected not a due care of the grave, though they put their ashes to unreasonable expectations, in their tedious term of return and long set revolution. [81] Similis reviviscendi promissa Democrito vanitas, qui non revixit ipse. Quæ, malùm, ista dementia est; iterari vitam morte. _Plin. l. 7 c. 55._ [82] Καὶ τάχα δʼ ἐκ γαίης ἐλπίζομεν ἐς φάος ἐλθεῖν λειψαν ἀποιχομένων. [83] Cedit enim retro de terra quod fuit ante In terram, _etc._ _Lucret._ [84] Plato _in_ Phæd.