. 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. families and hereditary pric.^; was a point of honor among thePhoenicians that descent Pride of descent could be traced far back to and growth of ^1 !? /• ,1 /- . 1 i -1 1 the aristocracy. the forefathers of the tribal epoch. For a long time this here
. 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. families and hereditary pric.^; was a point of honor among thePhoenicians that descent Pride of descent could be traced far back to and growth of ^1 !? /• ,1 /- . 1 i -1 1 the aristocracy. the forefathers of the tribal epoch. For a long time this hereditary 364 GREAT RACES OE JJAXKEYD. right to preeminence in the civic mon-archy would be recognized and pass un-challenged ; but at length wealthy mer-chants, trading firms, and great sea cap-tains would claim admission into thekings council. There must be an en-largement to admit such as these toparticipation in the affairs of the military life also would make Greeks or the Italians a highly inflectedcivil government, became in the hands ofthe Phoenician nobility no more than ap^efigurement and possibility. The civic monarchy of the mothercities of Phoenicia tended to The civic mon-spread itself into the colo- archy diffuses it- -L self into foreign nies. The older colonies parts,followed the parent state in their style. VIEW OF LANARKA, CYPRUS. some great. A condition supervenedlike that of mediaeval Venice. ThevSidonian council in the fourth centurvB. C. had been increased to live hun-dred or six hundred inembers. Themovement was clearly in the directionof the republican development Avhichwas to appear, after many centuries, inthe Italian cities; but the appearancenever came to fruitage. The civil de-velopment was arrested, and that whichwould have become in the hands of the of government. This movement exxtended westward as far as the cities ofCyprus, but not farther. In the West,particularly in Carthage, an aristocraticform of government was adopted, with atende
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