The Winning of the West (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Winning of the West THE Twelve Tribes of Israel took their names for the most part from the twelve sons of Jacob. But Ephraim was not a son, he was a grandson. He was the younger, the more vigorous and promising son of Joseph. He was the one on whom Jacob, the aged grandfather, laid his right hand when he was asked to bless the two boys. He gave his left hand to Mannasseh, the elder, who might naturally have been the privileged one. And in the estimate of the author of Genesis this action was prophetic. The Tribe of Ephraim became perhaps the most powerful tribe in early Israel. It was brave, resolute, enterprising. It pushed out to the north and west, thus extending the borders of the land of promise. On the west side shall be the standard of the Tribe of Ephraim! Westward the spirit of progress and of leadership takes its even way. From Persia to Greece, where Alexander of Macedon wept because there were no more worlds to conquer! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.