. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. in ancient General outline of subject in pre- and modcm times. We ceding books. ,, , -, ? -, have attempted, m accord-ance with the general plan of the work,to delineate the national characteristicsof these peoples—to point out with properfullness of illus
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. in ancient General outline of subject in pre- and modcm times. We ceding books. ,, , -, ? -, have attempted, m accord-ance with the general plan of the work,to delineate the national characteristicsof these peoples—to point out with properfullness of illustration their primitivemythology, their early adventure, their strong trend toward literature and art,their intellectual greatness, extendingover several thousand years, their greatabilities in statecraft and the construc-tion of vast and regular societies, andtheir leadership of all other races in theproduction of civilization. AVe now ap-proach the ethnic life-history of anotherbranch of mankind lying nearest of allin kinship and activity with the Aryanpeoples referred to in the precedingbooks. AVhile the degree of divergence be-tween the Semitic and the Aryan raceshas been sufficiently well- Degree of diver-marked from the earliest ^^Z^.TstLtimes to the present day, the iti^ races,breadth of the departure is not, on the 199. 77//; . //^A^—OLD .ISSHURITES. 201 whole, so great as some have two general forms of man-life whichare here presented have many things incommon. The physical outline of theone people, though plainly discrimina-ble from the other, has the samegeneral feature and some conditions and insome countries the stature andphysiognomy of the Semite havebeen not greatly different fromthose of his Aryan associate ; butin other localities and other con-ditions which were calculated todevelop and emphasize the per-sonal peculiarities of each peo-ple, their ethnic traits have beenso different as to present thestrongest contrast.
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