. 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 . nd there oi personal an-cestry, but the larger part of the 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 bein
. 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 . nd there oi personal an-cestry, but the larger part of the 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. /amily the second development of the same stock. We shall see hereafter that the Arabs were the third Relation of the Hebrews to the and most rcccnt evolu-ramaeans. ^j^^^ from the Same ethnic original. The Eberites came over to has extended. The patriarch Abrahamat the head of a colony of his people,made his way far to the Migration of the west, and settled in Ca- Ahrahamitesouinaan. The story of the bat- ° * *ties and like vicissitudes through which. LAND (IF lllli HEL;\ ALLtv OF ihe Jordan. 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 countr} 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. After-ward the tents of the tribe are pitched THE HEBREWS.—EVOLUTIOy OF
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