Excerpt from The Promised Land a Drama of a People's Deliverance, in Five Acts, (in the Elizabethan Style) With regard to the last-mentioned point it may be objected that the women in the play are allowed more scope and freedom than is usual in the East but a reference to the Bible will show that the women of Israel in the early days probably had a good deal of independence. I think I am right in saying that the wearing of a veil by a woman is only twice alluded to in the Mosaic books, and then apparently as something out of the ordinary course. 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.