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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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e a popular body grewup in Carthage resembling the Plebs, orCommons, of Rome. Officers were chosento represent this element in the state. opinion, they were able to put up andput down the greatest civil and militaryleaders of the age. As colonists, as a people, as a nation,the Carthaginians retained the religionof the parent state. Like Religious char-all the other Semites, they Se^thetirrwere profoundly religious, i^ood.Indeed, it were hard to distinguish inthe case of any of these peoples betweenthe secular and the religious life. Thepriest and the civil officer held nearly 578 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. identical relations to the people whoselife they influenced and directed. Amongthe Carthaginians, indeed, there was noorder of priests as distinguished fromthe other oflicers of the republic. There the ceremonial and theory of the ancientfaith were better preserved than in theisland of Cyprus. The cruel and bloodyaspects of Phoenician worship were re-duplicated among the Carthaginians.
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GROVES OF BAAL ATTACKED BV HOSTILE TRIBES. was no Levitical gild or other familyright in the matter of religious honors.Yet there were men set apart to attendprofessionally to the ceremonies of thenational religion. This was the imported religion of theold Phoenician cities. We may believeit true that on this far-off African coast They had their sacred groves, their highplaces, and their idols. Baal Ancient faith re-was worshiped, and was ^^^^iTconsidered by the Greeks sacrifices.and Romans as identical with their Cro-nos, or Saturn. He was the god of thesun and of fire. If we may believe thecontemporaneous accounts of the Latin THE CANAANITES.—CARTHAGINIANS. 379 authors, the practice of human sacrificewas prevalent. There was a great effigyof metal, having arms and hands andfingers of iron so constructed that chil-dren and other offerings thrown into theextended palms were enfolded and castinto the breast of the image, whereburned a fiery furnace. The story of human offerings to th

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