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God's Placement of Palestine "By how
could such a people be better framed than by selection out
of that race of mankind which have been most distinguished
for their religious temperament, and by settlement on a land
both near to, and aloof from, the main streams of human
life, where they could be at once spectators of history and
yet not its victims, where they could enjoy personal
communion with God and yet have some idea also of His
providence of the whole world; where they could gather up
the experience of the ancient world, and break with this
into the modern? Sir G. A.
Smith, "The Historical Geography of the Holy Land" 25th
Ed. pp. 109, 110
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