. 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 . ABRAHAM AND rUli Kl-NG OF SALEM. The movement from the eastern rivers to the western sea had extended overM.—Vol. 3—19 In Egypt the Israelites had no oppor-tunity for civil government. They were 290 GRJLIT RACES OF MANKIND. under the laws and authority of theEgyptians. It would appear tliat they were aggregated for the?su^:ctrSf
. 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 . ABRAHAM AND rUli Kl-NG OF SALEM. The movement from the eastern rivers to the western sea had extended overM.—Vol. 3—19 In Egypt the Israelites had no oppor-tunity for civil government. They were 290 GRJLIT RACES OF MANKIND. under the laws and authority of theEgyptians. It would appear tliat they were aggregated for the?su^ most part in the region be- tween Pelusium and theLower Nile. The situation was such asto permit of no independent civil devel-opment. Slaves do not adopt a consti- were in a disorganized massfrom the country. On their going f(jrthinto the desert, or the wilderness, asit is termed in Hebrew story, the peoplewere as yet without institutions. Theyrolled away in the direction of Sinai,and, bein^ once freed from pursuit andpersecution, began to become CONSECRATION OF A PRIEST. tution, or even organize a priesthood. Aservile race must accept the law of themaster, and even adore the masters the story of Israel in bondageas told by the author of Exodus is verydifferent from that recorded in the tra-dition of the Egyptians,there is an agreement inthis, that the Hebrewswere a subject people, and that they Phases of thegoing forth ofthe Hebrews tofreedom. vision hadbeen main-tained duringthe Egyptianperiod. Theseveral bandsof fugitives were gathered into twelveprincipal divisions, according to thenames of their ancestors. Moses andhis brother are represented as hav-ing almost absolute authority in direct-ing the destinies of the whole ascendency over the Israelites wasreferable to the fact that the leaderspresented themselves in the name andby the authority of Jehovah, who had THE HEBREWS.—POLiriCAL EVOLUTION. 291 ordered them to lead
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