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 .. . se regions. It is extremely difficult, either bymeans of historical traditions, ethnictraces, or linguistic proofs, p0mt of disper-to determine satisfactorily tZT™*to which branch of the orig- «* threefold division the Assyriansand the Chaldaeans respectively , at later periods, when theHamitic race has well emerged from this 442 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. region, and is discovered with a
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 .. . se regions. It is extremely difficult, either bymeans of historical traditions, ethnictraces, or linguistic proofs, p0mt of disper-to determine satisfactorily tZT™*to which branch of the orig- «* threefold division the Assyriansand the Chaldaeans respectively , at later periods, when theHamitic race has well emerged from this 442 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. region, and is discovered with all its pecul-iar traits in Southeastern and SouthernArabia and in Egypt, and when the Sem-ites have likewise appeared, with theirdistinctive peculiarities well developed, inthe West, the course from which the tworaces have manifestly come into subse-quent fields of activity, when traced back- the center, and the Japhethites close upto the Caspian. From these evidences and by this justtrain of reasoning, it would appear con-clusive that the primary division of theNoachite family took place in the up-lands of ancient Iran, at a point morethan ten degrees of latitude eastward. IN KURDISTAN.—View of Little Ararat, with Group of Kurds in Foreground.—Drawn by Alfred Paris. wards, shows a conjuncture much to thecast of the Mesopotamian region andnot in the valleys of the Euphrates andthe Tigris. This is to say that at thetime when the Hamite, the Semite, andthe Japhethite races made their waythrough Mesopotamia to the West, theywere already separated geographically,the Hamites being on the south, pressingclose to the Persian gulf, the Semites in from the Mesopotamian region, whichmay be regarded as the center of the Tra-ditions of the Deluge. It is safe, there-fore, in the ethnic scheme, to mark thedivision of the Noachites far beyond andto the eastward of the low-lying alluvialplains of Mesopotamia. If, then, the observer should take hisstand in the Arabian desert west ofMesop
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