Excerpt from The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal CodesCompleteness of legislation in the modern sense not to be expected, the law embraces those ceremonial and civil forms which were shaped by the theocratic idea, all else left to existing usage or future provision, opposite objections urged, incompleteness, or too great perfection for a nomad tribe, 51 isolation of the peo ple and the equal division of lands favor simplicity of legisla tion, which was subordinate to Israel's high spiritual calling, 52.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.