. 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. There were those inadaptability ofwho were skilled in the ^^eiawsto the changing 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 le
. 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. There were those inadaptability ofwho were skilled in the ^^eiawsto the changing 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. 305 been regarded under the theocracy, andpossibly what view the prophets took ofthe issue presented. The weakness ofthe whole system of legislation was, aswe have said, its inadaptability to theever-changing order of society. TheJudaic system in every part resistedthe law of evolution and progress. Itwas the essence of the system to reach an established estate from which thereshould be no departure or standards fixed by the theocracywere to remain forever as the invariableunits of measure alike for the religious,the ethical, the civil, the social, andeven the personal, life of the Jewishpeople. The Hebrew state was foundedon theocratic principles. Chapter ex.— N the course of thisinquiry we have hadoccasion to revert mseveral parts to the re-ligion of the Hebrews,and its influence inthe body politic. Thereligion of the race was the fundamen-tal element in the national characterand history. It were perhaps true tosay that among no other people of theworld has the religious life so com-pletely dominated all other forms ofthought and action. The Hebrew tribal life began in a re-Hebrew life . . .founded on re- Hgious iustiuct and scpara- ligious instincts. • -, .-, ^ .^ tion, and the career of therace as a nation ended in an unsuccess-ful effort of the Jews of the first centuryto maintain in their own cou
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