. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. of a con- of life tendedT, . c 1 1 4- to longevity. dition more favorable tohealth and longevity. The tradition ofthe long lives of the Hebrew fathers maywell be accepted as consistent with thefacts, though the years in which theirlives were numbered were
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. of a con- of life tendedT, . c 1 1 4- to longevity. dition more favorable tohealth and longevity. The tradition ofthe long lives of the Hebrew fathers maywell be accepted as consistent with thefacts, though the years in which theirlives were numbered were may we dismiss the patriarch of hisclan, with his flocks and herds and free-dom and abundance, Avithout a sigh ofregret for that necessity of civilizationwhich substitutes for him and his simplemethods of existence the complex, inul-tifarious, ambitious life of mart and townand city. The Hebrew has left his flock tobecome the trader-in-chief of the world. THE HEBREWS.—SOCIAL rNSTirUTIONS. 253 CH^^PXER CVI.—SOCI^M. A>JI3 IDOKIESTIC INSXITUTIOXS. Y the time of the insti-tution of the Hebre^vtheocracy the primitivepastoral life gave awaybefore the aggressionsand demands of thesedentary system. Theconflict between the two types of exist-ence may be both seen and illustratedin the action of the two and a half tribes. beyond the river. The remainder madethe exchange, not we may believe with-out regret, but rather under the compul-sion of military and religious philosophical reader may discoverin the indifference manifested by theHebrews about going over Jordan andpossessing the land the reluctance whichthey felt to abandon the pastoral free-dom enjoyed by their fathers.
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