Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews: With an Introductory Essay on Civil Society and Government
Next to the birth and mission of Jesus Christ, the exist ence and institutions of the Hebrew people are the most important event-in universal history. The founder of Ju daism and the founder of Christianity are the two persons whose lives and labors have most extensively and power fully in?uenced the progress and destiny of the human race. The truths which they revealed, the doctrines which they taught, have entered as the profoundest element into the civilization of mankind. While saving individuals, they have been the true power of nations, acting at once as the most vivifying and the most conservative principle in human affairs.
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