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 .. . HE motives, as well asthe materials, of aliterary work are de-rived from manysources. The reasonswhich the mind of thewriter may give toitself for its activity and persistence ina certain labor are complex in theextreme, and often difficult to real origin of a book is lost in theobscurity of the unconscious or half-conscious provinces of the intellect andthe will. Now that the present workhas been com
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 .. . HE motives, as well asthe materials, of aliterary work are de-rived from manysources. The reasonswhich the mind of thewriter may give toitself for its activity and persistence ina certain labor are complex in theextreme, and often difficult to real origin of a book is lost in theobscurity of the unconscious or half-conscious provinces of the intellect andthe will. Now that the present workhas been completed and is ready fordelivery to the public, I search for itsgenesis with the hope of making thereasons of its existence clear, and withthe desire to furnish a measure of jus-tification for the enterprise. Through a period of more than aquadrennium I have been steadilyengaged with the composition of thesevolumes, the plan of which suggesteditself to my mind, though dimly, fully ascore of years before it began to beexecuted. In youth, and while engagedin giving historical instruction in aninstitution of the higher learning, I dis-covered in myself a deep and lastinginterestridpathshistoryo01ridp
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