. 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 . mists and exhalations,along a horizon wide as the world andthe seas. The subject which has been consid-ered in the foregoing pages is, perhaps,the vastest, as it should be the most in-teresting, which may well Vastnessoftheengage the attention of ts^eVu?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 . mists and exhalations,along a horizon wide as the world andthe seas. The subject which has been consid-ered in the foregoing pages is, perhaps,the vastest, as it should be the most in-teresting, which may well Vastnessoftheengage the attention of ts^eVu?Lman; the subject is him- outline,self. It is his origin, his primitive es-tate, his dispersion over the earth, hisissuance out of primeval barbarism, hisdevelopment into tribes, peoples, andnations, the evolution of arts, the crea-tion of institutions, the discovery of theprinciples and laws of the civilized life,and the final building up of that im-mense and splendid structure known ashuman history. All this is here presented in its rudi-ments. This illimitable field we haveattempted to sketch with such poorpower of obseryation and coloring as thenative gift and vision and acquired in-formation of the writer have enabledhim to see and reproduce. Now at theclose, the landscape rises again in rapidtransformation and retrospect upon the. PELAGIAN NEGROES OF THE by Tofani from a photograph. 742 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. mind as we contemplate, with backwardlook, the evolution and vicissitudes ofthe Races of Mankind, the astonishingphenomena which have attended theirhistory and development, and theirprospects and promise. Here, then, at last, in the far ocean -world, marking the limit of our goingforth, we pause and give over the task,Concluding re- ever incomplete, to the flections sug- j j f otherS- In do. gested by the work, ing so, we shall not at- tempt any elaborate or rhetorical sum-mary of the topics and principles of thathuman evolution which in the
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