. 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. be made for theexaggerations which were common inall the current accounts of Israel was greatly wasted by run HEBREWS.—EVOLUTION OE THE EBERITES. 24T wars and defections during the full gen-eration of travel and vexatious migra-tion acr
. 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. be made for theexaggerations which were common inall the current accounts of Israel was greatly wasted by run HEBREWS.—EVOLUTION OE THE EBERITES. 24T wars and defections during the full gen-eration of travel and vexatious migra-tion across the desert. Coming againin a circuit to the eastern borders ofCanaan, the race was still strong, andhad gained in discipline and prowessmore than it had lost in , the generalissimo of that newIsrael born in Syria, was able to makehis way not only into Eastern Canaan,but across the Jordan, and to gain an appears to have been the natural fe-cundity of the race, we may discover atleast two of the elements which havecarried the Hebraic peoples in ethnicstreams from the far-off fountain intothe foreground of modern civilization. vStill another element of the peculiarstrength of this family of mankind wemay discover in the discipline to whichthe ancestors of the race were subjectedby the hard incidents of its early his-. VIEW IN Wkst from Ascalon.—l>mwn by Paul llaiUy, a pliotugraph. immovable footing in battle with thestrong tribes of WcvStern Canaan. Another peculiarity of the Hebrew stock which we may already discover, even from the date of Ethnic persist-ency of the He- the Egyptian bondage, was ^^^^ its strange persistency of purpose. Few other races have so in- veterately hung to their own wills and objects of desire ; few have pursued the end with such persistent and unvarying obstinacy as did the Hebrews, even in the earlier ages of their ethnic evolution. If we combine this quality with what tory. Making all allowance for the ex
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