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His Place in the History of Religion
Literature
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With Abraham there opens a new chapter in the history of the race, a chapter of the profoundest significance. The consequences of Abraham's movements and beliefs have been limitless and enduring. All succeeding time has been influenced by him. And yet there is in his life a remarkable simplicity, and an entire absence of such events as impress contemporaries. Among all the forgotten millions of his own time he stands alone, a recognizable and memorable figure. But around his figure there gathers no throng of armed followers; with his name no vast territorial dominion, no new legislation, not even any work of literature or art is associated. The significance of his life was not military, nor legislative, nor literary, but religious.