. 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 . la: 40, girl of Dankov ; 4>, girl of Riazan ; 4^, girl of Tambov ; 43. 44, men of ; 45. 46, Prls ol Vp IHE SLA I S.—K [ SS/.l .VS PRO PR R. 133 not naturally fertile, but it was naturallyeasy, and the race was strong. If themodern ethnologist be required to selectfrom among the races of men the typewhich has the greate


. 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 . la: 40, girl of Dankov ; 4>, girl of Riazan ; 4^, girl of Tambov ; 43. 44, men of ; 45. 46, Prls ol Vp IHE SLA I S.—K [ SS/.l .VS PRO PR R. 133 not naturally fertile, but it was naturallyeasy, and the race was strong. If themodern ethnologist be required to selectfrom among the races of men the typewhich has the greatest animal vitality,which can most endure, which can standthe severest shock, to whom even theblow of battle is not fatal, the Slav, theRussian, must be chosen at once. Hehas been such from antiquity, at leastfrom the Dark Ages. With this was sources. At this time the southwesternplains were peopled, also the valley ofthe Vistula. In the ninth Contributions to century the Upper the population 1,1 A i ii i. of Russia. was populated. At thattime the Lithuanians lay on the west,Finnish tribes on some borders, andTurkish tribes on others, mixed some-what with the expanding Slavonian,population. Far in the southeast theTurkish Mongolians still continued to. NOMADS OF THE NORTH-TYIES.—Drawn by A. , from a phutugraph. coupled great fecundity. It makes littledifference by what name we call thisvast northeastern fountain of Aryan hu-manity. It is sufficient that it the East supplied its emigratingtribes, the native disposition of the race,its power of increasing and enduring,constituted the secondary catises whichled to the multiplication of barbarism forman}- centuries, until at last it loomedup, dark and ominous, along all thefrontiers of the civilized parts of was, perhaps, in the eighth andninth centuries that Russia received itsfinal contributions from ultra-European extend their sway. The Udrains lefttheir abodes in the Ural mountains andm


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