. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . now under consideration,are but successive evolu-tions of the same humanstock. Perhaps there were still olderraces in this region of whom the acutestmodern scholarship can catch but faintglimpses in the languages and monu- icans arise fromsuccessive evo-l
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . now under consideration,are but successive evolu-tions of the same humanstock. Perhaps there were still olderraces in this region of whom the acutestmodern scholarship can catch but faintglimpses in the languages and monu- icans arise fromsuccessive evo-lutions. mental remains in this part of CentralAmerica were the work of the Nahoasrather than of the later Nahoas spring Toltec races who developed from a Toitecinto the Mayas and theQuiches. Beyond the evidence whichsuch ancient monuments bear relative tothe character of the Nahoa family, andbeyond the glimpses which we catch oftheir character in their descendants ofGuatemala, we know but little aboutthem or their place in race history. It was thus by a tribal movement thatthe races known to our inquiry were 554 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. pressed clown into Honduras and CostaDistribution of Rica. These countriesthechontais; inhabited bv a family their industries and arts. called the Chontals, who appear to have extended into the narrow-. QUICHK IDOLS AND ALTAR AT COPAN est part of Panama. These Chontals arethe last of the Central Americans to-ward the south. Like the other peoplesof this narrower America they developeda civilized life, giving themselves suc-cessfully to industries and arts. They, as their kindred nations to the north,organized monarchical and priestly gov-ernment, worshiped the gods, built tem-ples and palaces of stone, reared cities,and peopled their part of the isthmian regions with alarge and activepopulation. Peoples of thisstock went downthrough the isth-mus, or werepressed forwardby tribal move-ments in the pre-historic age tothe expandingshores of SouthAmer
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