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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt:...different branchc of the Hebraic race. We have seen the originals of these divisions Synopsis of the. Hebraio evoiu-of mankind pushing out from the central and lower Euphrates across the Syrian desert to the countries bordering on the Eastern Mediterranean. These movements belonged to a period far anterior to the beginnings of formal history. The out. going tribes were, first of all, those Canaanitish peoples of whom we have gained our principal information from the writings of the Hebrews. Afterwards' came the Hebrews themselves and the Phoenicians. We have watched the historical and ethnical development of these divisions of mankind, and have noted the degree of importance which they attained among ancient peoples. We have seen the westward progress of this branch of the Semites as far as Carthage, the inner shores of Spain, and the outer coasts of Western Europe. We have marked the political crisis of the Semitic race in the case of the Carthaginians. We have glanced in turn at the modern descendants of this Hebraic division of men, finding only as the present representatives of the ancient race the Hebrews and the Neo-Syrians--the former dispersed among the nations; and the latter, though still possessing a country, yet presenting no distinctive ethnic type upon which to place the expectation of a future development int? the higher forms of civilization. HE proper consideration of a race must begin with a glance at its physical environment. Every people of the world have drawn their character, in part at least, from the prevailing conditions of nature. The existence of the Esquimaux in Guiana, or of the Abyssinians in Spitzbergen, is a thing inconceivable under the laws of the natural world. Arabia is one of the forces which have...