Historical Sketches, Volume 1

John Henry Newman

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LECTURE 1. The Tribes of the North.

THE MOTHER COUNTRY OF THE TURKS.

The Tribes of the North.

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The collision between Russia and Turkey, which at present engages public attention, is only one scene in that persevering conflict, which is carried on, from age to age, between the North and the South,—the North aggressive, the South on the defensive. In the earliest histories this conflict finds a place; and hence, when the inspired Prophets denounce defeat and captivity upon the chosen people or other transgressing nations, who were inhabitants of the South, the North is pointed out as the quarter from which the judgment is to descend.

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