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 .. . e and America, even to the shoreline of the Pacific, is, in a like sense,the result of a certain innate radicalismwhich has forced the moving racesfurther and further onward, until at lastit threatens to leap the greatest of theoceans and precipitate itself again uponthe East. This division of mankind into amigratory and nonmigratory part musthave been based, in its ultimate analysis,upon innate differences and un
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 .. . e and America, even to the shoreline of the Pacific, is, in a like sense,the result of a certain innate radicalismwhich has forced the moving racesfurther and further onward, until at lastit threatens to leap the greatest of theoceans and precipitate itself again uponthe East. This division of mankind into amigratory and nonmigratory part musthave been based, in its ultimate analysis,upon innate differences and unconscious,unreasoning impulses in those originaltribes from which Asia and Europehave alike been peopled. Nor can itwell be understood how the influence ofthe external world can adequately ac-count for the true genesis and primalworkings of this migratory habit. PRIMEVAL MAN.—CAVE DWELLERS OF EUROPE. 275 Chapter XVI.—The Cave Dwellers oe Europe. ONG before the incom-ing- of the first Aryanpeoples into Europetribes and races of menwere already diffusedover the country. Noris it possible for us, inthe present state of knowledge, to piercethe bottom of these human strata and. For the present, archaeological andethnical inquiry has reached down onlyto this epoch when the aborigines ofWestern Europe were contemporaneouswith certain extinct species of is here that we must begin our inquiryrelative to the primitive life of man inthose parts of the world with which weare most familiar. It is well to repeat
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