[391] Guyot, "Earth and Man," p. 255.
[392] Guyot, "Earth and Man," pp. 264, 265; Wallace, "On Natural Selection," pp. 324-6; Martineau, "Essays," 1st Series, p. 126.
[393] Guyot, "Earth and Man," p. 304.
[394] See Article "Philosophy," in Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible." See also Shairp, "Culture and Religion," pp. 40-46.
[395] "Palestine was from the beginning an isolated land, as Israel was an isolated people, and therefore for thousands of years both have been unintelligible to the world at large. No great highway led through Palestine from people to people; all passed by it, and not over it; all its coast was without favorable harbors. No one of the pagan states of antiquity could come into close geographical, mercantile, political, and religious relations with a people existing under the sway of Jehovah."—Ritter, "Geographical Studies," p. 43.
[396] Article "Philosophy," in Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible."
[397] Ritter, "Geographical Studies," pp. 342, 343.
[398] Guyot, "Earth and Man," p. 307.
[399] "The conjugal tie was held sacred, and polygamy prohibited."—De Pressensé, "Religions before Christ," p. 160.
[400] Merivale, "Conversion of the Roman Empire," p. 92.