Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rst dependenceupon their flocks and herds. The latterabounded. We must remember thatthe Syrian plains were then a new coun-try. Vast is the difference between thenew country and the old—between theexuberance, the grassy wealth, the wild- THE HEBREWS.—EVOLUTION OF THE EBERTTES. 251 fruit extravagance of the one, and theexhausted sterility of the other. Mark the progress of the Abrahamiteswestward from, the fatherland of theIncreasing abun- Chaldees to their new homeirahair in Canaan. Very deliber-clans, ate was their progress. Here a camp and there a camp. Ifthese lands be cropped of their pastur-age, yonder plain invites both us and his household divides both flock andclan and takes his journey yonderward.The tribes multiply and expand into aconsiderable volume. Scjmetimes thereare quarrels and fighting. Injustice andthe lust of property stand against jus-tice and the rightfulness of ownership.There is the nulcc of rude arms—victoryfor the one, defeat and subjection of theother.
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VINEYARDS OF ISRAF:L.—Treading the Grapes.—Drawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. our retinue of flocks. Thither will wego. The water brooks are there—pos-sibly the palm trees by their banks ofgreen. Day by day and week by weekselect animals are chosen from the herdsand slain for the food of the tribe. Thenative instincts of the goats and sheepand cattle produce more rapidly than thedaily want is able to exhaust. Theherds become great, and are divided.This nephew takes one division and goesoff thither. That brother-in-law with Perhaps there was never a condition ofhuman life more abundantly supplied with healthful food-meats Naturalness of than that which we here ^^^.^glcontemplate among the ^ais.ancestors of the Hebrews. Observe thesentiments of affectionate regard withwhich the patriarch must consider hisanimals about to be slain. The necessityof killing is strong upon him; but therepugnance to the act, let us believe, isuniversally human. Might we not sat- 252 GREAT RACES OE

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