It may be that, as glaser reckoned, Sabaean society in the south-west of the peninsula had already reached the preliminary stage of tribal settlement through which Israel passed under its Judges, and was now moving towards monarchy; and that of this our traveller might have learned something in Syria from the last arrived Aramaeans.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
As we rode across the plain we were perpetually harassed by the thought as to where the excellent harbour could be, which is mentioned by all ancient writers as frequented by the frankincense merchants, and which modern writers, such as Dr. glaser and Sir E. H. Bunbury, agree in considering to be some little way west of Merbat.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent
Says Professor Otto C. glaser, of the University of Michigan, in a recent issue of the Popular Science Monthly: Does not the fitness of living things; the fact that they perform acts useful to themselves in an environment which is constantly shifting, and often very harsh; the fact that in general everything during development, during digestion, during any of the complicated chains of processes which we find, happens at the right time, in the right place, and to the proper extent; does not all this force us to believe that there is involved something more than mere chemistry and physics?
"The Breath of Life"
John Burroughs
