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 .. . nowledge and the astonishing benefitsderived therefrom by the Aryan, or peoples are utterly subject to the forcesof physical nature. It is not impossiblethat the weakness of the old forms ofcivilization, their want of perpetuity, waschiefly attributable to the prevailing ig-norance of the laws of phenomena; andit is probable that the strength and per-manence of existing institutions are cor-related with the preval
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 .. . nowledge and the astonishing benefitsderived therefrom by the Aryan, or peoples are utterly subject to the forcesof physical nature. It is not impossiblethat the weakness of the old forms ofcivilization, their want of perpetuity, waschiefly attributable to the prevailing ig-norance of the laws of phenomena; andit is probable that the strength and per-manence of existing institutions are cor-related with the prevalence or the non-prevalence of scientific knowledge. Thisis to say that at least one of the conditions 562 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of perpetuity among the institutionalforms established by mankind is theknowledge of the physical laws by whichthe world is governed, and the sympathyand concord of man with those laws inthe exercise of his activities. out of Mesopotamia directly to the westand were there developed into the He-brew and Arabian nations, seem to havedwelt in their mental activities upon thenature and character of the intelligencewhich preceded and formed and directed. SEMITE CONTEMPLATING NATURE.—Drawn by Paul Hardy. it was hinted on a preceding page thatthe Semitic mind had shown itself moreconcerned with what maybe called the Cause of na-ture than with natural phe-nomena themselves. From the earliestages of history the peoples who came The Semiticmind seeks per-sonality in na-ture. not only the isolated facts and processesof the material world, but the world it-self and universal nature. It appears tohave been in the nature of the Semiticmind to ascribe personality and intelligenceas the cause of phenomena and to passover the phenomena themselves, their DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 56a relations and dependencies, to reflectupon the character and will and work ofthe personal agent behind the aspects ofthe material world. Following out this fu
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