. 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 . DESERT MARCH OF THE ISRAELITES. 294 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. ship. The office of judge had not beencontemplated in the establishment of thetheocracy. It arose afterwards as anInstitution of almost ncccssary element^nt^lt^e in the body politic. Itchoosing. -^vas in the nature of things that the priesthood should concern itselfmore
. 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 . DESERT MARCH OF THE ISRAELITES. 294 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. ship. The office of judge had not beencontemplated in the establishment of thetheocracy. It arose afterwards as anInstitution of almost ncccssary element^nt^lt^e in the body politic. Itchoosing. -^vas in the nature of things that the priesthood should concern itselfmore and more with the religious gov- l. HIGH PRIEST OF ISRAEL- ernment and ceremonial. The ineffi-ciency of such rule in secular matterssoon became apparent. The affairs ofthe people were neglected or misadmin-istered in instances not a few. Thus the necessity for some one tostand as the organ of public opinion anddetermine what should be done in timesof emergency evoked from the heart ofJewish society the judges. They are saidto have arisen, an expression whichsuggests the national origin of the judi-cial office. In reality, the judge was theprecursor of the king that was tobe. The epoch was transitoryfrom the pure theocracy whichhad preceded to the absolute mon-archy which was to follow. Thetransition, indeed, was less rapidthan might have been theocratic principle held backthe movement for a considerableperiod. The judges did not succeed eachother in regular order. Only threeof them, Deborah, prerogativesEli, and Samuel, are ^^^^^^named as having office,arisen to the preeminence of thegeneral judgeship of
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