. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . re than accident which ledthe Hamitic and Semitic races to coast-lines like theEgyptian, the Arabian, the Chaldaean, the Phoenician,and the Carthaginian. It was a genuine race-instinctthat made the princes of the line of Ham and the lineof Shem eager to found cities and to cultivate thosearts which no doubt had been handed down traditionallyto the older sons from the discoverers. That Japheticr
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . re than accident which ledthe Hamitic and Semitic races to coast-lines like theEgyptian, the Arabian, the Chaldaean, the Phoenician,and the Carthaginian. It was a genuine race-instinctthat made the princes of the line of Ham and the lineof Shem eager to found cities and to cultivate thosearts which no doubt had been handed down traditionallyto the older sons from the discoverers. That Japheticrace, from whom our Aryan ancestors are generally be-lieved to have sprung—that race, whose genius seemedto lie dormant for so many centuries, was no doubt bynature less prone to follow the lead of one man, less aptto coalesce smoothly in all its variant types into nation-ality, less willing to leave the woods, the fields, and therivers for the life of cities. The race was slow to ma-ture, but it was repaid for its long waiting by a richerand livelier maturity than was reached by the races whichfor so long a period left it so far behind in the march ofcivilization.—Beginnings of IIUTTEN, Ulrich VON, a German politico-religious reformer, born at Castle Steckelberg,near Fulda, Prussia, April 21, 1488; died on theisland of Ufenau, Lake Zurich, August 23, was the eldest son of a powerful baron ; butbeing feeble from infancy, it was decided by hisfather that he should enter the Church, while thesecular inheritance should go to a younger brotherhaving more brawn, although, most likely, lessbrain. Ulrich was in his eleventh year placed inthe monastery of Fulda, with the intent, he says, that I should stay there and become a monk,which nowise suited him. At sixteen he ranaway, and for several years led an almost vaga-bond life. We find him at half a dozen Germanuniversities, one after the other, where he be-came known as an uncommonly clever fellow. Attwenty-f
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