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 .. . They are com-memorative merely, conventional marksof rank, of association, and affection onthe part of the living. To a certain extent these principlesno doubt operated with the prehistoricpeoples; and all inferences Meaning of ar-relative to the meaning ticfles7fstbe fc> inferred from of the articles found in the human nature,barbaric tombs of extinct races must bechecked and corrected by what we knowto be the
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 .. . They are com-memorative merely, conventional marksof rank, of association, and affection onthe part of the living. To a certain extent these principlesno doubt operated with the prehistoricpeoples; and all inferences Meaning of ar-relative to the meaning ticfles7fstbe fc> inferred from of the articles found in the human nature,barbaric tombs of extinct races must bechecked and corrected by what we knowto be the general laws and tendencies ofhuman nature. Opinions and beliefspass through many mutations, and cus-tom is known to be more persistent thaneither. Long after the fervid convic-tion of the truth of a certain doctrineand theory of human life and death haspassed away or given place to a mildand inoperative assent of the mind, theancient usages which were based on thatbelief in the epoch of its pristine vigorcontinue to be observed, and these mightwell convey to distant ages an erroneousimpression of the current opinions ofthe people. Chapter XX.—Prehistoric Racks ok ESTIGES of prehistoricraces of men are by nomeans limited to Eu-rope and the countriesof the East. In thethree Americas alsosuch traces of peoplesunknown to history are abundantly dis-tributed. It remains to note in thepresent chapter at least the prominentfeatures of the ancient monuments ofour own country and of the continentsouth of the isthmus of Panama. It isthe intention merely to sketch the out- line of our primitive monuments, and todeduce therefrom a few general conclu-sions relative to the peoples by whomthey were built and the ages in whichthey flourished. In all parts of North America, fromthe Alleghanies to the far West, and from the great lakes to Abundance °f the gulf of MeXICO, a class mounds in the„ c . 1 • three Americas. ot monumental remainsmay be observed by the traveler andantiq
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