Word: china
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Martin, son of the Rev. Dr. Martin now at the head of the Imperial college, Pekin, China, has been appointed assistant professor of modern languages at Trinity college. Professor Martin is a Princeton graduate, a Ph. D. of Tubingen, Germany...
...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 were the intermediaries between the peoples of the ancient world, the founders of ocean commerce, the bearers...