. 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. together the members of the familywith the strongest ties of both kinshipand ethnic fidelity. It is easy to vSee howbut for these principles of domestic lifethe Jewish peoples would, in a compara-tively short time, melt away into thecommon volume of the hu
. 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. together the members of the familywith the strongest ties of both kinshipand ethnic fidelity. It is easy to vSee howbut for these principles of domestic lifethe Jewish peoples would, in a compara-tively short time, melt away into thecommon volume of the human the practice of the out-marriage ofthe Israelites with the peoples among 264 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. whom they dwell, and two or three gen-erations would leave them no longer dis-criminable in feature or thought ormanner of life from the prevailing typesaround them. How much longer thissingular ethnic separation—based, as itis, no more upon territorial independ-ence, but wdiolly upon the prevalent sen- timents of the Jews themselves—can bemaintained it were vain to vain is it to try to discover whatgood purpose of progress, or the generalbetterment of mankind, is subserved bythis long-continued isolation of the He-brews and their self-seclusion from therest of mankind. Chaf»ier CVII.— HE course of the pres-ent treatise has nowbrought us to a situa-tion from which wemay, with profit, con-sider at some lengththe language, not onlyof the Hebrews proper—not only of thecognate peoples who are classified underthe general name of Hebraic—but of theSemitic race in general. The tonguesof the Semites have been the subject ofReasons of the a vast range of inquiry in£!n°lSi::-° l^oth ancient _ and modernguages. times. Their importance as languages has been exaggerated by thefact that they have been the vehicles ofexpression for the most iinportant reli-gious systems of the human race. Theliterature preserved in these languages,while
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