Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. FRIENDLT INTERCOURSE AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEI THE TTRIANS AND THE JEWS. In the whole range of ancient history there is hardly any fact more remarkable than that the Tyrians and Jews, living side by side, were never at war with each other. And what makes this the more surprising is, that their acquaintance began under circumstances such as would bo likely to entail an hereditary enmity and hate between the two people. The Israelites came marching into the land of Canaan with the open and avowed intent utterly to destroy the old race that had possessed it, of whom the Tyrians were a part. And though the conquest stopped short of its full purpose, --though, for various reasons, the Sidonian inhabitants on the coast were left unmolested, --yet it was not for want of will on the part of the Jews that this exemption was made, but rather for want of courage and power to try the fearful experiment of their subjugation. What condition of things can be conceived that would have been more apt to engender hatred between these two races, and to have led on to continual war and strife? Then, too, we must take into consideration the fact that these early ages of the world were emphatically ages of war. Neighboring tribes and nations were, as a rule, in a state of broil and contention. No common standard of truth and justice had then grown up in the earth by which petty differences might be adjusted. The passions of men were greatly in excess of their reason, and they were apt to fly to arms on slight provocations. Moreover, the Jews themselves were not particularly a quiet and peaceable people. They were a stubborn and warlike race, and by all their principles and habits stood in a kind of antagonism to the rest of mankind. Tbey were pointed.
