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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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rac-tion toward the individual and personal THE HEBREWS.—RELIGION. 307 which makes them, monotheistic in reli-gion, lyrical in poetry, monarchical inpolitics, abrupt in style, and unable forspeculative thought. In this strong sketch of the character of the Semitic peoples, we note the belief of the author that monotheism as a form of religious faith and doctrine was instinc- tive in the g^iven race— Was the belief ^ . instinctive in that that race differed from the race? n ^i • ,i all others m the possessionof this instinct. Others were polytheis- the modern nations had a differentorigin. Among civilized peoples poly-theism has given away. Nowhere inEurope or the New World, where thecivilized life is prevalent, are people anylonger found who believe in the exist-ence of many gods. The existenceamong all these of a monotheistic faithmust be attributed to a Semitic origin. Other great thinkers have taken adifferent view from that of M. Renan.The study of the mythology of the Aryan
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PLACE OF LAMENTATION.—Drawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. tic; but these believed in the unity andpersonality of God as the first concepts ofreligion. In the treatise referred to theauthor proceeds to show that the threegreat monotheistic religions—Judaism,Christianity, and Mohammedanism —have all arisen from a Semitic source.This is true. Nor has any other formof prevailing religious thought among nations has led investigators not a fewto the belief that the first concepts of thepeoples of these races also ■• ^ . . Contrary opin- were monotheistic. Max ion; views of -,, .. 1 1 1 Max Mliller. M u 11 e r, perhaps morethan any other, has urged this view uponthe attention of English-speaking peo-ple. His study of the Vedas and generalinvestigation of the laws and phenomena 308 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of linguistic change has led him to con-clude that the primitive inhabitants ofIndia, as well as those of Persia andGreece and Rome, believed origiually ina single Father of He

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