They little care to know;
Content, as men at arms, to cope
Each with his fronting foe."

Chapter X.

The Jewish Religion.

Sec. 1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races.
Sec. 2. Abraham; or, Judaism as the family Worship of a Supreme Being.
Sec. 3. Moses; or, Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy King.
Sec. 4. David; or, Judaism as the personal Worship of a Father and Friend.
Sec. 5. Solomon; or, the Religious Relapse.
Sec. 6. The Prophets; or, Judaism as the Hope of a spiritual and universal
Kingdom of God.
Sec. 7. Judaism as a Preparation for Christianity.

Sec. 1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races.

Palestine is a word equivalent to Philistia, or the land of the
Philistines. A similar name for the coast region of Syria has been found
on a monument in Nineveh,[336] and at Karnak in Egypt.[337] Josephus and
Philo use the term "Palestine," as applying to the Philistines; and the
accurate learning of Milton appears in his using it in the same
sense.[338] "The land of Canaan," "The land of Israel," and "Judaea" were
the names afterward given to the territory of the children of Israel. It
is a small country, like others as famous; for it is only about one
hundred and forty English miles in length, and forty in width. It
resembles Greece and Switzerland, not only in its small dimensions, but by
being composed of valleys, separated by chains of mountains and by ranges
of hills. It was isolated by the great sea of sand on the east, and the
Mediterranean on the west. Sharply defined on the east, west, and south,
it stretches indefinitely into Syria on the north. It is a hilly,
high-lying region, having all the characters of Greece except proximity to
the sea, and all those of Switzerland except the height of the mountains.
Its valleys were well watered and fertile. They mostly ran north and
south; none opened a way across, Judaea to the Mediterranean. This
geographical fact assisted in the isolation of the country. Two great
routes of travel passed by its borders without entering its hills. On the
west the plains of Philistia were the highway of the Assyrian and Egyptian
armies. On the north the valley of the Orontes, separated by the chain of
Lebanon from Palestine, allowed the people of Asia a free passage to the
sea. So, though surrounded by five great nations, all idolatrous,--the
Babylonians, Medes, Assyrians, Phoenicians, and Egyptians,--the people of
Judaea