Excerpt from Cyprian: The Churchman The Carthaginians were Phoenicians or Canaan ites. They were a Semitic race, but had none Of the ennobling religious conceptions of their kindred, the Jews. They are an everlasting Object lesson by contrast of what Divine revelation can do for a people. Who made thee to differ? They were one of the bloodiest and cruelest races of antiquity, and their religion the most hideous ever practiced by a people emerged...