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Excerpt from History of the People of Israel, From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans: Written for Lay Readers Beside Hellas and Rome, third in the group of races to which the arbiter of history assigned an exceptional mission in the world, stands Israel. True, Israel played no important part in universal history in the accepted sense of the word, nor didt it ever lead in the march of civilization. In learn ing and the plastic arts it achieved nothing it produced no Plato or Aristotle, no Phidias or Praxiteles, no Homer or Sophocles, - but it gave the world Moses and the prophets, and from it alone could be born after the manner of the esh, Jesus of Nazareth. Just as on the secular side our whole intellectual life is rooted in Hellas and Latium, so on the religious side it is rooted in Israel: Israel gave the world the true God and the true religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.