. 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. tes, however, regained theirascendency in the region which had beenoccupied by the tribes out of the East,in so much that by the close of the Egyp-tian period the traces of pure Hebraismwere hardly any longer discoverable inCanaan. The primitive races of t
. 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. tes, however, regained theirascendency in the region which had beenoccupied by the tribes out of the East,in so much that by the close of the Egyp-tian period the traces of pure Hebraismwere hardly any longer discoverable inCanaan. The primitive races of thatcountrv had Q;rown stronof and warlike. 246 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. They had progressed also toward thecivilized life. Their towns and citieswere of considerable importance, andwhen returning- Israel, coming in on adetour from the south and east, atlength crossed the Jordan, they had toencounter the Canaanitish armies, andcontend by battle and siege for severalgenerations before they succeeded in two and a half centuries, the Hebrewshad multiplied to several millions! Ifwe accept the figures w^hich the Hebrewscribes have authenticated, we shall con-clude that the Israelites in Egypt werefully as numerous as the dominant race—at least that part of the race in pos-session of the Lower Nile valley. The mass of Israel, whether going. EGYPTIAN EPISODE OF ISRAEL—Pyramid Building. regaining possession of the PromisedLand. Meanwhile, we may notice by a cur-sory view of the Hebrews in Egypt oneRemarkable ex- of the marked peculiaritiesof the race. This is itsfertility. The extent towdiich Israel was multiplied in the Nilevalley is, if we accept the tradition,quite incredible. From a clan of fewerthan a hmidred persons the increasewent on until, at the expiration of about pansion of theHebrew race inEgypt. forth bv its own volition or expelled b^the compulsion of Egypt and her arms,,was prodigious as it rolled vicissitudes ofoff in the direction of the Se^Prr-sed^Syrian deserts. T
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