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Identifier: jordanvalleypet01libb (find matches)
Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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military occupation is an expensiveone, and is successful only so long as the centralgovernment can spare the many battalions needed.The idea of colonization, by a people of differenttongue, and habits, and religion, is also as old asAlexander the Great. The two new elements arethe telegraph wire joining all the military centres,and already referred to, and now the Mecca rail-way, following the line of the pilgrimage, whichwill be mentioned in a later chapter. The sword,the Circassian wedge of colonies, the telegraphwire, and the railroad is the newest combination inthis most ancient of problems, and one can butwonder what the verdict of the twenty-first centurywill be, when its statesmen and historians look backover the century that is still so young, There is one thought that forced itself upon usfrom a missionary and philanthropic point of view.Something should be done by the ChristianChurches of England or America for the Circas-sians. They are a strong race, and will surely play
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