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 .. . encounteredin the hunting- or nomadic stages oftribal development. That is, the means ofdefense would, under the common law ofreason, be proportioned to the resources,aggressiveness, and skill of the foe. We can eas-ily see, in theseconsiderationsat least, theoutline of greatnations con-tending for themastery of theMississippivalley. Noother hypoth-esis will ex-plain the musthave been inthese regions,i
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 .. . encounteredin the hunting- or nomadic stages oftribal development. That is, the means ofdefense would, under the common law ofreason, be proportioned to the resources,aggressiveness, and skill of the foe. We can eas-ily see, in theseconsiderationsat least, theoutline of greatnations con-tending for themastery of theMississippivalley. Noother hypoth-esis will ex-plain the musthave been inthese regions,in an epochlong antedat-ing the era ofthe Red men, in the earth mounds of the New Worldwith those discovered in the tumuli ofGreat Britain indicates Evidencesofclearly the greater antia- sreater antiq- £ + . ^ uityintheAmer- uity or the former. The icanmounds,earth surrounding the bones and otherhuman relics in the American mounds isexceedingly dry and compact. The situ-ation is generally favorable in the lastdegree to the preservation of human re-mains. Below the level of frost and en-tirely impervious to water, the dry earthsurrounding and covering the vaults „jfc- § * m. MILITARY WORKS ON PAINT CREEK, OHIO. great agricultural peoples, with institu-tions of religion and war. There mustGreat peoples have been intercourse and demanded to ac- „ i ,• ?.-, .-, count for Amer- relations with other peo-ican antiquities. pies like themselves, and these must sometimes have been rela-tions of hostility. Indeed, it would ap-pear from the strong military characterof the greatest and most important ofthe monuments that war was, even inthese prehistoric times, the most markedand vehement activity of the human comparison of the skeletons found seems to have been untouched by any nat-ural force forages. And yet the skeletonsin the American tumuli are nearly alwaysfar gone in decay. It is difficult to preservethem after their exposure to the air. Theygenerally crumble as soon as
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