Note 287 — Chapter XIII · CONFUCIANISM—I
Reading edition
Primitive Culture (4th ed.), vol. ii. pp. 120 seq. See also vol. i. pp. 96-7 for mention of vestiges of sacrificial ceremonies in England in honour of the dead. With reference to the gradual transformation of the old Roman feasts for the dead into festivals of the Christian martyrs, see T. R. Glover's Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire, pp. 15-16.