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 .. . ts con-cerning which she has not, and in allprobability can never have, the testi-mony of contemporary records. History accepts at their proper valua- tion the traditions and legends of antiq-uity. She gives to them such credenceas the master gives to the oral story maystories of the nursery and ^Sf*the playground. She gladly right reason,admits what truth soever may have beentransmitted from the most ancient time
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 .. . ts con-cerning which she has not, and in allprobability can never have, the testi-mony of contemporary records. History accepts at their proper valua- tion the traditions and legends of antiq-uity. She gives to them such credenceas the master gives to the oral story maystories of the nursery and ^Sf*the playground. She gladly right reason,admits what truth soever may have beentransmitted from the most ancient timesto the epoch of records and monumentsby the oral utterance and repe-of the primitive peo-ples; but she disallowsthe right of oral storythus handed downfrom age to age tocontradict theexact and indis-putable evi-dence of sci-ence and toset traditionon the thronein the placeof truth. We haveseen in theforegoingpages to whatdepth into thepast the actualrecords of our raceextend. Perhapsthe historical horizonof human life, as deter-mined by contemporaneous EXTREME OF ETHNIC DIVERGENCE LOWEST TYPE.— eVlClenCe, HeS nOt (2) Australian of the townsville coast. far from the line of. After a Danish drawing. forty centuries be-fore the Christian era. But this signi-fies no more than that the record isthere broken bv the limita- Historical hori-tionsof human knowledge. that border line, for the present divides the historicfrom the prehistoric life of man, extendthose vast unrecorded epochs of humanexistence concerning which our informa- 150 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. tiou must be derived from those branchesot science which have extended theirinvestigations beyond the historicalhorizon. We have endeavored in the pre-ceding pages to gather and summar-ize the evidences which Final estimate . - .. of the date of the present state of knowl- the beginning. ^^ ^ furnished ^th respect to the extent of man-life back-wards through the prehistoric much
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