The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ven unto the earth thebeauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of hisanger! The indebtedness of the literary world to the Israelites, has notbeen generally recognized nor realized by Christian scholars. To illus-trate the obligations of literature to the Jews, we need not dwell onthe fact that this people were the penmen, and the chosen depositoriesof that wonderful Book which contains the only reliable histo
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ven unto the earth thebeauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of hisanger! The indebtedness of the literary world to the Israelites, has notbeen generally recognized nor realized by Christian scholars. To illus-trate the obligations of literature to the Jews, we need not dwell onthe fact that this people were the penmen, and the chosen depositoriesof that wonderful Book which contains the only reliable history of theworld for many centuries, and which has more sublime and beautifulpoetry, and more valuable moral instruction than all other books—though this should entitle them to the lasting respect of the world ; forever since the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles—by whomthey have been a despised and persecuted people—the children of Israelhave distinguished themselves by their pursuit of literature. In the darkness of the Middle Ages, they interested themselves inthe studies of the Arabs, who for successive ages, were the sole patrons 944 The Synagogue, New York. of learning, and by means of translations into Hebrew and Latin, dif-fused a knowledge of the sciences through the different countries ofEurope in which they resided. Even previous to the ninth century theJews produced several original works on morals and philosophy. In the tenth century science was assiduously cultivated by them inSpain. At Toledo, they had schools which were greatly celebratedand crowded with scholars, no less than 12,000 pupils attending mathematics and astronomy there were no schools in Europe thatcould compete with those at Toledo. Aben Ezra, a Jew, was the in-ventor of the method of dividing the celestial sphere equatorily; and itis said that in some of the philosophical treatises by the Jews of thatperiod, allusion is made to that important principle in the Newtoniansy
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