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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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sacrifices.But the fundamental idea in the offer-ings which were heaped up around thealtars of Jehovah was the reconciliationof God to the people. The thought wasthat of atonement, or at-onement, as the 312 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. expositors have explained the word; an at-onement between Jehovah and the sinful race who had Notion of recon- . j i ■ ciiiation and nominally accepted hini as at-onement. . i • i • i , their king, but was ever-more deviating from rectitude, ever-more breaking the laws of truth andrighteousness. It belongs to the special history of re-ligions to elaborate the particulars of It were difficult to find in the epochof the Hebrew ascendency the evidencesof a profound religious life Religious ufe ofamong the people. They ^:^:Z\^,:;.did the letter of the gonial,statute ; but it were hard to discover thetraces of the spirit. There was literal-ity, but little spirituality—a vast exhibi-tion, but small exemplification of aninner religious life. The Mosaic sys-
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SACRIFICING TO JEHOVAH. the Judaic system of faith and practice.We are here concerned only with itsethnical results. The Hebrews becamea profoundly religious nation—accord-ing to the standards of the age. It isclear that the national faith in its sub-stance and expression becaiue a cere-monial and form rather than a livingprinciple of moral and spiritual life. TheHebrew of the theocracy and the king-dom regarded the act of worship as con-sisting in the letter of the performance. tern of faith became crystallized in theusages of the race, firmly set in a moldand fashion from which there was nodeviation. With the progress of thepeople there appeared what alwayscomes to pass under like conditions, adeparture between the thought and lifeof the nation on the one side, and itsunyielding ceremonial on the other. Itis the peculiarity of religious systemsto become petrified in forms, usages,statutes, ceremonials, and, worst of all, THE HEBREWS.—RELIGION. 313 dogmas, from which there is no

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