. 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 . f(Jl I KK AT IHE WHttL.£>rawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. Phoenicians and Hebrews in barrenness of these races in pic-torial and plastic art is something thatmay well excite the astonishment of aftertimes. It mioht almost be . , . ^T -I • Poverty of the said that the Hebraic peo- Hebrew race in1 i r TV r
. 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 . f(Jl I KK AT IHE WHttL.£>rawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. Phoenicians and Hebrews in barrenness of these races in pic-torial and plastic art is something thatmay well excite the astonishment of aftertimes. It mioht almost be . , . ^T -I • Poverty of the said that the Hebraic peo- Hebrew race in1 i r TV r i • ^t work proper. pies west or Mesopotamiahave never carved a statue or painted acanvas! As compared with the facilityand abundance of Aryan, and evenHamitic, art, the Semites are totally 282 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. eclipsed. The lutterrose to the level ofcunning workmanship, and in a few in-stances to elegant and luxurious decora-tion; but of that wide, free art m whichthe inspired imagination and skillfulfinger^ of Aryan genius have wroughttheir marvels through many ages oftime and in all vicissitudes of circum-stance and place, the Hebraic peoplesknew nothing and cared as little. In the useful arts the Semites show. WuMAN GRINDING AT 1 HE Drawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. to a better advantage. In this respectthere is a considerable divergence anddifferentiation of the several branches ofthe race. Some had a better technologyBetter appear- and some a worse. Thosewho turned their energ-iesat an early period to com-merce and foreign intercourse became,under the reactions of such a manner oflife, manufacturers and artisans. Of ance in the in-dustrial anduseful arts. this kind were the inhabitants of thegreat seaport cities of Phoenicia. Fewemporia of the ancient world had greateractivities of the sort here referred tothan did Tyre and Sidon in the age oftheir ascendency. The products of thosefamous cities were known in all thechief centers of ancient civiliz
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