. 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 . aanites, however, regained theirascendency in the region which had beenoccupied by the 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 thatcountry had grown strong and warlike. 246 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The
. 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 . aanites, however, regained theirascendency in the region which had beenoccupied by the 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 thatcountry had grown strong and warlike. 246 GREAT RACES OF 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 cast, atlength crossed the Jordan, they had toencounter the Canaanitish armies, andcontend by battle and siege for severalgenerations before they siTcceeded in two and a half centuries, the Hebrewshad multiplied to several millions I IIwe accept the figures which 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 EmLOisc. 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 itsfer* .v. The extent towhich Israel was multiplied in the Nilevalley is, if we accept the tradition,quite incredible. From a clan of fewerthan a hundred persons the increasewent on until, at the expiration of about pansion of theHebrew race inEgjrpt. forth by its own volition or expelled bjthe compulsion of Egypt and her arms,Avas prodigious as it rolled vicissitudes ofoff in the direction of the ^l:rp,^omUd°Syrian deserts. The record, as well as that of theHebrews, shows that the exp
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