. 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 . nius. Tothe present time the unfavorable situa-tion has not been overcome, and theSlavic race, third in strength among thegreat peoples west of the Urals andAltais, has not been able to obtain its THE SLAVS.—C/riL IXSTITUTIONS. 159 proportional part of the worlds com-merce. In these facts we may see once moreillustrated the trut
. 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 . nius. Tothe present time the unfavorable situa-tion has not been overcome, and theSlavic race, third in strength among thegreat peoples west of the Urals andAltais, has not been able to obtain its THE SLAVS.—C/riL IXSTITUTIONS. 159 proportional part of the worlds com-merce. In these facts we may see once moreillustrated the truth that every nation isdetermined and limited in its activitiesby the conditions of its physical environ-Eussiades- mcnt. Great Britain and to:ni>rrnT Holland were preordained^^^- by nature to be the seats of a world-wide commerce. Russia was the rise of the Czars of Muscovy to theirpresent broad political dominion. TheRussian sjovernment, now The autocracyCOVermg all but the out- a natural result_ . /. ,1 C1 • • of conditions. posts of the Slavic races, isby far the greatest autocracy in the one point of view it seems to bethe greatest anachronism. This, how-ever, like all other aspects of the aggre-gated life of man, is but a natural evolu-. MINERS 01 KA r \K -1 \ Ii; ),?,,„„ by ,.i, ,1 I. in like manner predestined to an inter-nal life. Possibly she may yet by wayof the Mediterranean reach the broadwarm waters of the inviting ocean ; butfor the present age at least the Slavicpeoples must content themselves withproduction and internal trade. It belongs to general history to trace tion from preexisting conditions. It ishardly within the range of rational state-ment for the historian or ethnographerto speak of unnatural circumstances inthe development of the social and politi-cal life of man. The Russian government preserves inEurope that personal and autocratic 160 GREAT RACES OF MANKL\D. aspect which belonged of old to all forms ?of gov
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