. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . omanoff rule. t ^i ^ races, and then trans-mitted to their successors. The im-perial system is fortified by aristocracyand military force. It has at its com-mand every resource which tyranny andself-interest have been able to inventor discover. Against it is arrayed theSlavic mind, Avhether Russ or Pole. POLES OF POSEN—TYPES.—Dr
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . omanoff rule. t ^i ^ races, and then trans-mitted to their successors. The im-perial system is fortified by aristocracyand military force. It has at its com-mand every resource which tyranny andself-interest have been able to inventor discover. Against it is arrayed theSlavic mind, Avhether Russ or Pole. POLES OF POSEN—TYPES.—Drawn by V. Foulquier. exception of such of their nobility ashave found it to their advantage to castin their lots with the great autocracy—and the Russian liberals have a commoncause against the empire and its repre-sentatives. We have already spoken of the vastvarietv of ethnic character variety of char-displayed by the Slavic ^^^^races. Uniformity of per- races,son and manner has not been attained Tnii SLAVS.^POLES. 183 under the influences of a common civili- the final test of language. Time was, zation, and it is doubtful whether suchcan ever be reached in so vast and diver- if we mistake not, when the ancestorsof the Teutonic races and the Slavs still. PllLl^H IVlKS AM) Cci»TL:MES.—Drawn by V. Foulquier. Bified a country. It is true that the Slav-ic nations have certain traits by whichthey can generally be distinguishedfrom other peoples without appealing to held together in those vast wooded re-gions out of which they finally de-bouched into Eastern Europe and spreadas far as Scandinavia. 184 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Slavs and Ger-mans from theancient types. At that time they had an ethnic char-acter which was easily recognizable andDeparture of was described by Roman historians areagreed in regard to thepersonal appearance of the is still a popular belief that theTeutonic peoples conform to the de-scription given by Tacitus, Caesar, andth
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