Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ted by the memo-rials and relics of the primitive world. It appears conclusive that a considera-ble part of the human race is at thepresent time in a condition Lowest savage-as degraded aid unpro- SSSffSSfgressive as any which is the globe,suggested by our knowledge of the pre-historic races of the Old World. On theother hand, we have the fact of evolu-tionary progress splendidly illustratedin the history, tendenc
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ted by the memo-rials and relics of the primitive world. It appears conclusive that a considera-ble part of the human race is at thepresent time in a condition Lowest savage-as degraded aid unpro- SSSffSSfgressive as any which is the globe,suggested by our knowledge of the pre-historic races of the Old World. On theother hand, we have the fact of evolu-tionary progress splendidly illustratedin the history, tendencies, and prospectsof the civilized races. It is apart fromthe present purpose to speak of the in-dustry, the enterprise, the letters, theart, the triumph over the obdurate forcesof the natural world, which have beenpracticed and achieved by the great peo-ples now holding dominion in the is sufficient to note and to emphasizethe contrast which is afforded by the de-graded and the elevated aspects of hu-man life, and this contrast is broughtmost vividly to the mind of the inquireras he considers the aspect of barbarismset darkly against the blazing disk :^$^.iS^^rm^k.
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