. 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 . idelight relative to the civil polity of the Canaanitish na-tions. The political institutions of allhad a family likeness. As we have saidabove, the various tribes were disseveredfrom each other alike by geographicalbarriers and the tendencies of localchieftainship. The Semitic love of inde-pendence coincided with the brokenchar
. 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 . idelight relative to the civil polity of the Canaanitish na-tions. The political institutions of allhad a family likeness. As we have saidabove, the various tribes were disseveredfrom each other alike by geographicalbarriers and the tendencies of localchieftainship. The Semitic love of inde-pendence coincided with the brokencharacter of Palestine in segregating thepetty nations each from the other. Inthe Book of Joshua we have an enumera-tion of thirty-one kings of Canaan. Certainly such kingdoms could be of The is in one place extended toteveiity. M.—Vol. 3—22 no great extent or power. In one place(Judges xi, id) we are told that Ilazorwas the chief of all these Sense ofthekingdoms. From this, terms kingdom however, we should not un- ^ ^derstand that the King of Hazor had afeudal suzerainty over his fellow-chief-tains of the other states, but only that hewas greater than the surrounding reader will understand that theword king in such a relationship has no. OLD CANAANITISH INSCRIPTIONS—SARCOPHAGUS OFESMUNAZAR, sense corresponding to that derived from modern monarchy. It was rather in thecase of the chiefs of Canaan a militaryleadership, which had arisen by the ele-vation of the headman of the clan to thegovernment of the whole tribe. The most striking fact in connectionwith the petty states of ^ ^ Disposition of Canaan was their fre- the canaanites .... , to confederate. quent combination into con-federacies. Whenever danger appeared 338 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. a federation would be formed of thoseprinces wlaose territories were Israelites had little trouble in over-coming the Canaanitish tribes so longas the latter fought singly; but the con-federation of ma
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