. 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 . to the same time, however, the lawfavored the fugitive by providing forhim certain towns into which he mightflee, and thereby laying hold of an al-tar be safe from pursuit. At the altarthe national religion held its shieldabove him. It would not appear that the primi-tive Hebrew legislation Avas improvedand modified by
. 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 . to the same time, however, the lawfavored the fugitive by providing forhim certain towns into which he mightflee, and thereby laying hold of an al-tar be safe from pursuit. At the altarthe national religion held its shieldabove him. It would not appear that the primi-tive Hebrew legislation Avas improvedand modified by succeed- want of iii^g generations,statutes dated for the most to the early ages of the can hardly be said that the consti-tution ever recognized change or im- rpi provementin?? ^ Hebrew legis- 304 GREAT RACES OF MANKIXD. provement. Nothing of Semitic ori-gin jjrovides for its own was the weakness of Israels establishment of the judgeship,and even of the monarchy, could hardlybe said to be statutory; for neither the gov^ernment. There was an executive,and also a judiciary. Both offices underthe theocracy belonged to the priest-hood, and the judiciary to that body always. A judicial proceeding in Israel was a. HOMICIDE FLYING TO A CITY OF REFUGE. ?one nor the other was contemplated atthe beginning. Lawyers, as such, wereas imknown as legislators in never was any secular assemblyof the people or of their representativescalled for the purpose of altering oramending the legislation of the was no leg-islative branch to the religious inquest rather than a legalinquiry. There were those inadaptabUityoiwho were skilled in the ^^^.IS^^exposition of Hebrew law; order of society,but all such lore was retrospective andreligious. The question was ever todetermine how a given matter had stoodin the primitive legislation; how it had THE HEBRE WS.—RELIGION. 805 been regarded under the theocracy, andpossibly what view t
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