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Excerpt from Sinai and Palestine, in Connection With Their History
The historical interest of Sacred Geography, though belonging in various degrees to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy, is, like the Sacred History itself, concentrated on the Peninsula of Sinai and on Palestine. Even in its natural aspect the topography of these two countries has features which would of themselves rivet our attention; and on these, as the basis of all further inquiry, and as compared with similar features of other parts of the world, I have dwelt at some length.l But to this singular conformation we have to add the fact that it has been the scene of the most important events in the history of man kind; and not only so, but that the very fact of this local connection has occasioned a reux of interest, another stage of history, which intermingles itself with the scenes of the older events, thus producing a tissue of local associations unrivalled in its length and complexity. Greece and Italy have geographical charms of a high order. But they have never provoked a Crusade and, however bitter may have been the disputes of antiquaries about the Acropolis of Athens or the Forum of Rome, they have never, as at Bethlehem and Jerusalem, become matters of religious controversy - grounds for interpreting old prophecies or producing new ones - cases for missions of diplomatists.
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