The History of the Jews, From the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times 1
The History of the Jews, From the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times 1
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196 # but as the head of the state, or theocracy,^ were an- terior to the rights of the people, — the well-being of the community, the ultimate end of human legislation, was subordinate %nd secondary to the great purpose for which the Jews existed as a separate nation. Hence any advantage to be derived from foreign commerce, or from a larger intercourse with the neighboring tribes, wealth, or the acquisition of usefril arts, could not for an instant come into competition with the danger of rela...psing into polytheism. This was the great national peril, as well as the great national crime. By this they annulled their compact with their sovereign, and for- feited their title to the promised land. Yet by what legal provisions was the happiness of any people, sua si bona ndrint^ so beautifully secured as by the Jewish constitution? A country under a delicious cUmate^ where the corn-fields, the pastures, the vineyai^s, and olive-grounds, vied with each other in fertiUty ; perfect freedom and equality; a mild and parental govern- ment ; the administration of justice by local authorities according to a written law ; national festivals tending • to promote national union ; — had the people duly ap- preciated the blessings attached to the strict and per- manent observance of their constitution, poets might have found their golden age in the plains of Galilee and the valleys of Judaea.
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196 # but as the head of the state, or theocracy,^ were an- terior to the rights of the people, — the well-being of the community, the ultimate end of human legislation, was subordinate %nd secondary to the great purpose for which the Jews existed as a separate nation. Hence any advantage to be derived from foreign commerce, or from a larger intercourse with the neighboring tribes, wealth, or the acquisition of usefril arts, could not for an instant come into competition with the danger of rela...psing into polytheism. This was the great national peril, as well as the great national crime. By this they annulled their compact with their sovereign, and for- feited their title to the promised land. Yet by what legal provisions was the happiness of any people, sua si bona ndrint^ so beautifully secured as by the Jewish constitution? A country under a delicious cUmate^ where the corn-fields, the pastures, the vineyai^s, and olive-grounds, vied with each other in fertiUty ; perfect freedom and equality; a mild and parental govern- ment ; the administration of justice by local authorities according to a written law ; national festivals tending • to promote national union ; — had the people duly ap- preciated the blessings attached to the strict and per- manent observance of their constitution, poets might have found their golden age in the plains of Galilee and the valleys of Judaea.
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