" The "iniquity of oblivion" is illustrated by the fact "Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
This work claims "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." It argues that we cannot "extenuate the valour of ancient martyrs" because they "parted with life when it was scarce worth living" and that "to subsist in lasting Monuments" was part of the Christian Elysium, but that "all this is nothing in the Metaphysicks of true belief." The "iniquity of oblivion" is illustrated by the fact "Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it." It claims "what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed" are puzzling, though not beyond conjecture. This work's sequel espouses a "higher geometry of nature" via the quincunx, the figure x, and the lozenge shape; that sequel is The Garden of Cyrus. Exemplifying Baroque prose in lines like "man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, pompous in the grave", for 10 points, name this work of Thomas Browne inspired by the discovery of a Bronze Age funerary site.
This work claims "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us."
{Hydriotaphia}, {Urn Burial}