. 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 . rown races differentiated peoples is theweak through erroneous concepts which ignorance and x dread of nature, they all have of the naturalworld, and of the forces by which it iscontrolled. It may well be doubted whether any superior civilization canexist


. 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 . rown races differentiated peoples is theweak through erroneous concepts which ignorance and x dread of nature, they all have of the naturalworld, and of the forces by which it iscontrolled. It may well be doubted whether any superior civilization canexist among mankind in the absence ofa scientific concept of nature. TheBrown races have Shamanism, or, atmost, some vague deductive dogmas bywhich they seek to adjust themselves tothe conditions of their Aryan races have science—knowl-edge. They understand the laws of phe-nomena, and therefore master the Brown races, through ignoranceand credulity, stand in dread of nature,and shudder at her beneficent taking leave of these races the seri-ousness of our feelings and sympathyfor them turns upon the considerationof their general barbarity and unpro-gressiveness, and on the additional factthat the conservatism of the race seemsto impede indefinitely the higher devel-opment of its capacities and ; .-?^^P-^t


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