. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. nomen-clature is tribal. The meaning of suchrecords is that certain tribes were, ac-cording to their tradition, descendedfrom other tribes, of which the patro-nymic has been preserved. And in thissense the ancestral genealogies of theHebrews must be unders
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. nomen-clature is tribal. The meaning of suchrecords is that certain tribes were, ac-cording to their tradition, descendedfrom other tribes, of which the patro-nymic has been preserved. And in thissense the ancestral genealogies of theHebrews must be understood. This being true, we note in the firstplace the origin of the Hebraic race inan Aramaic descent. This would signifythat the Aramaeans were the oldest divi-sion of the Semites, and the Hebraic 243 244 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. family the seccnid development of the same stoek. We shall see hereafter that the Arabs were the third Relation of the . Hebrews to the and most reeent evolu- Aranieeans. has extended. The patriareh Abraham,at the head of a eolony of his people,made his wav far to the • . ^ Migration of the west, and settled in Ca- Abrahamitesout r ,^ j_i • rrAi > r^i 1 j_ of Chaldsea. tion from the same ethnic , naan. i he story of the bat-original. The Eberites came over to I ties and like vicissitudes through which. LAND OF THL: HEUREWS. —Valley ui- ihe Joudan. the right bank of the Euphrates, and es-tablished themselves at Ur of the Chal-dees. It was from that position thatthe true migration and beginnings ofhistorical development were to taketheir rise. The story of the movement by whichHebrew nationality was to be ultimatelyachieved is known wherever Christianity the immigrants passed before they wereable to occupy and possess the country oftheir choice need not be repeated. Whatwe are here to consider is the destiny ofthe race in another and higher sense. At the very beginning we find theAbrahamites at Shechem, where theybuild an altar to Jehovah-El, Aft
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