. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . en grazing countries beyond the Jor-dan. Not even the temptation of enter-ing into the Promised Land could in-Hebrews reiin- duce them to give UJD therhSTeluc- method of life to which theytantiy. \-\ been so long accus- tomed, and to accept in its stead the re-stricted life of the hamlet and vineyard It were needless to enum
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . en grazing countries beyond the Jor-dan. Not even the temptation of enter-ing into the Promised Land could in-Hebrews reiin- duce them to give UJD therhSTeluc- method of life to which theytantiy. \-\ been so long accus- tomed, and to accept in its stead the re-stricted life of the hamlet and vineyard It were needless to enumerate againthe products of Palestine. The countryis represented at the time of Hebrewnationality as exuberant in Poeticaldescrip-the production of fruits tio c Paies- ^ tme; Its beauty and flowers. Perhaps a ana abundance,part of the poetical descriptions whichthe bards of Israel were wont to draw ofth6 beavity and abundance of their land 254 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. should be explained by the contrastwhich even a moderately fertile countrymust present to the Syrian desert. Thiscontrast had been strongly impressed onthe recollections of the people in thetimes of the exodus. We may remem-ber also the strong antithesis in whichHebrew poetry abounded, and which in-. CHURNING WITH GOATSKIN BOTTLIDrawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. deed constituted its principal element ofbeai:ty. But, after all, Palestine must be al-lowed to have been a fruitful and beau-tiful region at the epoch of the ascend-ency of the Hebrew race. The hillsand mountains were covered with lower elevations the cypress the valleys the fruit-bearing treesabounded. Among- these the olive held the first place. The date-palm flourishedin the more favorable situations. Morethan all did the vine proclaim the fer-tility of the soil. Israel was emphatic-ally a grape-growing, wine-producingpeople. Vegetables were abundantlygrown with little trouble of may not know the particular char-act
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