. 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. disaster to thenation; but such results Avere oftencounterbalanced by Auctories and suc-cesses Avhich had for their mainspringthe religious enthusiasm of the is not intended here to recount theAucissitudes of the kingdom of Israel orto usurp the
. 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. disaster to thenation; but such results Avere oftencounterbalanced by Auctories and suc-cesses Avhich had for their mainspringthe religious enthusiasm of the is not intended here to recount theAucissitudes of the kingdom of Israel orto usurp the office of civil pohticai and so-history by explaining the S^^SSr causes of either the great- people,ness or the decay of HebrcAv kingdom flourished for a period,and then Avas dismembered, under the THE HRBRE \ \ S.—EI \)L U TION OF THE EBERITES. 249 combined influences of social degen-eration and political rebellion. Prophecyand the prophetical office were not ableto shore up the tottering- commonwealthagainst the corroding vices of the peo-ple and the successful assaults of foreign nant of the people scattered among theGentiles. All this has been told andretold in hundreds of narratives and inall literary languages. It is our officerather to give an account of the race assuch and to indicate the character of the 1. PASTORAL LIFE IN PALESTINE.—The Cami by Night—Drawn by IL A. \\m-\« IroFii a sketcli. armies. We note a long period of na-tional decline, until finally the kingdomof David and Solomon appears as theRoman province of Judaea, constantlyrebellious against the imperial authorityuntil, in the days of Josephus, the Jew-ish state was extinguished and the rem- ethnic traits, social life, industries, lan-o-uagfe, and religious institutions of thepeople under consideration. The Hebrews were at the first a pas-toral people. Perhaps the race presentsthis type of life in its most perfect accounts which have been trans- 250 GREAT RACES OE LIANKIXI)
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