. 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 . r instance, ^loloch El, the God of his people. To substi-tute another name was idolatrous; but itwas hardly polytheistic. It was not lawful, in the second place,to worship Jehovah under the guise ofany image or similitude. This form ofadoration had been forbidden from thefirst. Doubtless there were instances ofpolytheistic degen
. 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 . r instance, ^loloch El, the God of his people. To substi-tute another name was idolatrous; but itwas hardly polytheistic. It was not lawful, in the second place,to worship Jehovah under the guise ofany image or similitude. This form ofadoration had been forbidden from thefirst. Doubtless there were instances ofpolytheistic degeneration among theHebraic peoples and the Semites gener- 310 GREAT RACIiS OF MANKIND. ally; but idolatry in the religion of therace tisually ran in one of the twodirections indicated above; that is, theHebraic heretic worshiped the deityunder some other name than that whichhad brought victory, nationality, andpeace to his people; or the idolater setup some image or similitude of Elohim, sign, and to the second unity of will, isvastly more rational and sublime than isthat view of nature which regards her asa conccnirse of chaotic elements and theexpression of conflicting wills and pur-poses. The gradual extinction of polythe-istic beliefs throughout the civilized. DESTROYING THE OF IJAAL. pears to havebeen instinctiveIn the race. thus reducing him to the rank of apagan god. On the whole, there seems to be goodground for the allegation that monothe-Monotheism ap- ism was an Original instinctin the Semitic race. Inthis respect stood thesuperiority of that race over the othergreat families of mankind. In no otherparticular did the peoples of Semitic de-scent rival, or even approach, the Aryanraces. Of a certainty that concept ofnature and of the powers above naturewhich gives to the first the unity of dc- world points clearly to the conclusionthat such beliefs belong to polytheism be-the infancy of the race and J-^SS^fmanithe immaturity of reason. ^^^^^•The triumph of mono
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