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Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : World history
ISBN : PRNC:32101063964538
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : World history
ISBN : SRLF:A0001819549
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102246891X
This extensive historical work covers the early history of Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, and other nations of Western Asia. With a focus on the prominent leaders, customs, and events that shaped these societies, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the history and culture of this important region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : THE TROW PRESS
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Many a nation has walked God’s earth, has long enjoyed its good things, has come into being and passed away, without our knowing anything of its history, or even whether it had a history at all. For no nation has a history except one that makes history, that is to say, that influences the course of human development. It is with races as with individuals; none is kept in mind by posterity save those who have distinguished themselves by ideas that have modified the life of mankind, or (which comes to the same thing) have been pioneers in fresh fields of action. The greater the spiritual gain a nation has brought to the rest of the world, the longer and more steadily its life has flowed in the channels it was the first to make, the longer is its history told among them. The nations of history are those which have put forward, in one fashion or another, their claim to the dominion of the world. Thus we may fitly ask what claim it is that is made upon our interest by the history of the Jewish nation. And the answer will be, that nothing which excites our attention, or stirs us to admiration or imitation in the history of other nations, is here present in any large measure. Israel was always a small, nay, a petty nation, settled in a narrow space, never of any considerable importance in the political history of the East; it never brought forth a Ramses II, a Sargon, an Esarhaddon, an Asshurbanapal, a Nebuchadrezzar, or a Cyrus to bear its banner into distant lands. Yet, for all this, the history of Israel has, for us, an interest quite different from that of those other nations of antiquity. And if, as we see, Israel is far surpassed in martial glory by the peoples of the great empires, and by the Romans in their influence on the development of law, there are yet other points in which it must yield unquestioned precedence to other nations of antiquity. We do not find in Israel the same feeling for beauty as among the Greeks, who, like no nation before them or after, showed forth the laws of beauty in every sphere of intellectual life, and to this day, in such matters, stand forth in a perfection which has never again been attained, far less excelled. Among the Hebrews there is nothing analogous, nothing comparable to what we admire in the Hellenic people. It has no epic, nothing that can be compared with the Iliad and the Odyssey, against which the Germans set the Nibelungen Lied, and the Finns the Kalewala; it has not the slightest rudiments of a drama—the Song of Songs and Job are not dramas. There is a school of lyrical poetry unsurpassed for all time, and the music that corresponds to it. But the bent towards science, which actuates the Greeks, is wholly lacking—wholly lacking the bent towards[2] philosophy. Nor was it ever eminent in ancient days, in the walks of commerce, enterprise and invention, by which, also, a nation may conquer the world; its intellectual life is absolutely one-sided, a one-sidedness that produces on us the effect of extreme singularity. But the attraction it has for us does not lie in this singularity. It is due, rather, to the circumstance that this small nation has exerted a far greater influence over the course of the history of the whole human race than the Greeks or Romans, that to us it has become typical in many more respects than they. Our present modes of thought and feeling, our lives and actions, are far more profoundly influenced by the world of thought and feeling which Israel brought to the birth, than by that of Greece or Rome. Our whole civilisation to-day is saturated with tendencies and impulses which have their origin in Israel. To be continue in this ebook...
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465608017
Many a nation has walked God’s earth, has long enjoyed its good things, has come into being and passed away, without our knowing anything of its history, or even whether it had a history at all. For no nation has a history except one that makes history, that is to say, that influences the course of human development. It is with races as with individuals; none is kept in mind by posterity save those who have distinguished themselves by ideas that have modified the life of mankind, or (which comes to the same thing) have been pioneers in fresh fields of action. The greater the spiritual gain a nation has brought to the rest of the world, the longer and more steadily its life has flowed in the channels it was the first to make, the longer is its history told among them. The nations of history are those which have put forward, in one fashion or another, their claim to the dominion of the world. Thus we may fitly ask what claim it is that is made upon our interest by the history of the Jewish nation. And the answer will be, that nothing which excites our attention, or stirs us to admiration or imitation in the history of other nations, is here present in any large measure. Israel was always a small, nay, a petty nation, settled in a narrow space, never of any considerable importance in the political history of the East; it never brought forth a Ramses II, a Sargon, an Esarhaddon, an Asshurbanapal, a Nebuchadrezzar, or a Cyrus to bear its banner into distant lands. Yet, for all this, the history of Israel has, for us, an interest quite different from that of those other nations of antiquity. And if, as we see, Israel is far surpassed in martial glory by the peoples of the great empires, and by the Romans in their influence on the development of law, there are yet other points in which it must yield unquestioned precedence to other nations of antiquity. We do not find in Israel the same feeling for beauty as among the Greeks, who, like no nation before them or after, showed forth the laws of beauty in every sphere of intellectual life, and to this day, in such matters, stand forth in a perfection which has never again been attained, far less excelled. Among the Hebrews there is nothing analogous, nothing comparable to what we admire in the Hellenic people. It has no epic, nothing that can be compared with the Iliad and the Odyssey, against which the Germans set the Nibelungen Lied, and the Finns the Kalewala; it has not the slightest rudiments of a drama—the Song of Songs and Job are not dramas. There is a school of lyrical poetry unsurpassed for all time, and the music that corresponds to it. But the bent towards science, which actuates the Greeks, is wholly lacking—wholly lacking the bent towards philosophy. Nor was it ever eminent in ancient days, in the walks of commerce, enterprise and invention, by which, also, a nation may conquer the world; its intellectual life is absolutely one-sided, a one-sidedness that produces on us the effect of extreme singularity. But the attraction it has for us does not lie in this singularity. It is due, rather, to the circumstance that this small nation has exerted a far greater influence over the course of the history of the whole human race than the Greeks or Romans, that to us it has become typical in many more respects than they. Our present modes of thought and feeling, our lives and actions, are far more profoundly influenced by the world of thought and feeling which Israel brought to the birth, than by that of Greece or Rome. Our whole civilisation to-day is saturated with tendencies and impulses which have their origin in Israel.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1078875508
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : World history
ISBN : OCLC:686866070
Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9353803713
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Williams Henry Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259705632
Author : George Matthew Dutcher
Publisher : New York : P. Smith
Page : 1494 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015057980966
Author : Henry Robinson Shipman,Sidney Bradshaw Fay,Augustus Hunt Shearer,William Henry Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Best books
ISBN : IND:30000054457522
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082985840
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082916142
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UCAL:B2991997
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Libraries
ISBN : MINN:31951000758103K