Babylonian And Assyrian Laws, Contracts And Letters - Couverture souple

Johns, C. H. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1417922133 ISBN 13 : 9781417922130

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Johns C H W Claude Hermann Walter 18571920

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The social institutions, manners, and customs of an ancient people must always be of deep interest for all those to whom nothing is indifferent that is human. But even for modern thinkers, engrossed in the practical problems of our advanced civilization, the records of antiquity have a direct value. We are better able to deal with the complicated questions of the day if we are acquainted with the simpler issues of the past. We may not set them aside as too remote to have any influence upon us. Not long ago men looked to Greece and Rome for political models. We can hardly estimate the influence which that following of antiquity has had upon our own social life. But there is a deeper influence even than Greek politics and Roman law, still powerfully at work among us, which we owe to a more remote past. We should probably resent the idea that we were not dominated by Christian principles. So far as they are distinct from Greek and Roman ideals, most of them have their roots in Jewish thought. When a careful investigation is made, it will probably be found that the most distinctive Christian principles in our times are those which were taken over from Jewish life, since the Old Testament still more widely appeals to us than the New. But those Jewish ideas regarding society have been inherited in turn from the far more ancient Babylonian civilization. It is startling to find how much that we have thought distinctively our own has really come down to us from that great people who ruled the land of vii OS 15 .
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Originally published in 1904. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1417922133
• ISBN 13: 9781417922130
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 412