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 .. . JWI jSetonb, Primitive Estate of the Human Race. BOOK IIL-PRIMEVAL MAN, Chapter Aspects of Barbaric T is the purpose inthis book to presentas much as is knownrelative to the prim-itive condition of man-kind in several quar-ters of the earth. Theprogress of historical science and archae-ological research has now made us famil-iar with many aspects of the early lifeof man hitherto unknown. It is po
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 .. . JWI jSetonb, Primitive Estate of the Human Race. BOOK IIL-PRIMEVAL MAN, Chapter Aspects of Barbaric T is the purpose inthis book to presentas much as is knownrelative to the prim-itive condition of man-kind in several quar-ters of the earth. Theprogress of historical science and archae-ological research has now made us famil-iar with many aspects of the early lifeof man hitherto unknown. It is pos-sible, with our present light, to make atolerably accurate picture of the socialEssential inter- phenomena of several peo-££!$££ Pl** in those stages of theirconditions. development which lie com- pletely beyond the horizon of formalhistory. Nor can it be doubted that such reconstruction and revival of theM.—Vol. i—18 primeval conditions of our race, passingfrom the state of absolute unconscious-ness into the semiwaking of the earlydawn, will prove of the keenest interestif only the work be patiently and sym-pathetically performed. It must be understood at the outsetthat the beginnings of civilization in dif-ferent parts of the world are exceedinglydiverse in their aspects and Dive
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