Were the Hebrews justified in the methods employed in securing control of Palestine? Is it right for a progressive nation to compel a backward nation to submit? Were the Americans on this ground justified in seizing the lands of the Indians? What were the chief tenets in the early faith of the Hebrews? How did Israel's faith affect its political development? In what important ways was religion effective in making the English state? The American commonwealth? _Subjects for Further Study_. (1) The Structure and Literary History of the Book of Judges, McFadyen, _Introd. to O. T_. 76-83; Kent, _Student's O. T_. I, 26, 27. (2) Conditions in Canaan at the Time of the Hebrew Settlement. Paton, _Early Hist. of Syria and Pal_., 157-60; Maspero, _Struggle of the Nations_, 111-208; _Encyc. Bib_. II, 2223-5. (3) The Motives that Inspired the Leaders of the American Revolution. Fiske, Lodge, Bancroft or other writers on this period. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Making of a Nation by Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks