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 .. . theshades on either side of the line of de-markation would be so slightly differentas to be hardly distinguishable the onefrom the other. Such conditions are discovered alongthe edges, or selvages, of race develop-ment. The Danube in peoples approx-aneient times constituted SS?^S£a kind of geographical bar- margins,rier between the Teutonic and theGraeco-Italic races. The Goth, consid-ered as a Goth, was sufficien
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 .. . theshades on either side of the line of de-markation would be so slightly differentas to be hardly distinguishable the onefrom the other. Such conditions are discovered alongthe edges, or selvages, of race develop-ment. The Danube in peoples approx-aneient times constituted SS?^S£a kind of geographical bar- margins,rier between the Teutonic and theGraeco-Italic races. The Goth, consid-ered as a Goth, was sufficiently distinctfrom the Greek considered as a Greek,or the Roman as a Roman. But thetwo races at their margins approxi-mated a common ethnic form, and thisindependently of the admixture of of these considerations are adducedand urged upon the attention of the in-quirer to the end that his concept ofrace divisions may be somewhat morein accordance with the facts, than wouldlikely happen if he were trained to con-sider the different streams of mankinddistinctly separated by the exact lines ofethnography. 540 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. CHAPTER RACES OF |E are thus led to theconsideration of an-other fact of no littleimportance in the gen-eral apprehension ofthe movements anddispersion and devel-opment of mankind. This is the exist-ence and character of intermediate ormixed races. It has always happenedthat wherever two families Existence of , .. 1 -, ?, mixed or inter- of men have touched each mediate races. ^^ geographically, they have also touched by the more intimateadmixture of blood. In the early agesof history, when race antipathy wasstronger than it is under the light ofcivilization, the intermingling of differ-ent branches of the race was less fre-quent and conspicuous than in moderntimes. But intermarriages were com-mon from the remotest epochs, and arementioned as common circumstances inthe most primitive traditions of theworld. As a result of
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