[44] Meyer, p. 117.
[45] Sayce, Babylonian Literature, p. 36. Both poems here referred to are pre-Assyrian, being found as translations in the library of Assurbanipal. But Assyrian religion made no progress; it seems to have remained always dependent on Babylonian, even in details.
[46] Meyer, p. 178. Cf. however Sayce, The Higher Criticism and the Monuments, p. 114. Sayce maintains that the Assyrian epic attributes the flood to the moral guilt of men. But that is by no means proved, for it is more than doubtful whether sin to the Assyrian was not always mainly a ceremonial matter.
[47] Browning's Poems, "The Boy and the Angel."
[48] Theol., Ethik i., p. 515.
[49] Doctrine of Sin, vol. i., p. 114.
[50] Jewish Quarterly Review, October 1888, p. 55, where Professor Schechter finds himself compelled to discuss the question whether a man may be a good Jew and yet deny the existence of God.
[51] For an illustration of the way in which land-hunger and the rush to satisfy it operates on men, see the account of "The Invasion of Oklahoma" (a territory lately thrown open to occupation in the United States), Spectator, April 27th, 1889.
[52] The Caliphate, by Sir William Muir, p. 185.
[53] Central and Eastern Arabia, vol. i., p. 373.