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 .. . uencein preserving the aggregation or compact- 474 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ness of tribes in the formative state, andin conducing to certain religious and po-litical types of development. In the next place latitude, with its invariable concomitant of temperature, contributes much to modify the peoples who are subject to given Hamites areeth- J ° nicaiiy modified degrees of heat and cold. by environment. MM • . -,
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 .. . uencein preserving the aggregation or compact- 474 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ness of tribes in the formative state, andin conducing to certain religious and po-litical types of development. In the next place latitude, with its invariable concomitant of temperature, contributes much to modify the peoples who are subject to given Hamites areeth- J ° nicaiiy modified degrees of heat and cold. by environment. MM • . -, ,. 1 his is true m particular 01tribes who are still in the plastic can be no doubt that there is achildhood and a youth to mankind—an men. They also grew sedate and aus-tere, less disposed to highly developedforms of society, and, in brief, morelike the desert and rainless countries in-to which they penetrated than were theraces which distributed themselves fur-ther northward. Among the oldest monuments of theEgyptians there are pictorial represen-tations of the differences which had al-ready been produced among the Noa-chite descendants by the influences of. LANDSCAPE OF OLD ARYA—Ruins of Tous.—Drawn by A. de Bar, from a photograph. impressionable stage of evolution inwhich the influences of the externalworld are more potent in their reactionupon the mental and physical constitu-tion than they are in later stages of de-velopment. In these early stages of so-ciety there are infantine susceptibilitiesand diseases from which the race re-covers at a stage of fuller maturity. Forthis reason the early peoples in theirmigratory epochs have developed a con-stitution peculiarly significant of theclimate and region of their tribal so-journ. The races of Ham became muchdarker in color than their Semitic kins- environment. The sculptors, in these representations, have unwittingly borne evidence of the tendency of Egyptian sculp-tures evidenceraces m the plastic Stage
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