Word: worlds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...becoming more and more evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians...
...Brooks and Father Hall are too well known to Harvard men to need a further introduction. Bishop Dudley is the highest living authority upon the Negro question, having made it a life study; Mr. Crummell is probably the finest colored preacher in the world...