. 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 . AFFIRS—SOUTH AFRICAN 1YTKS. most infinite tribal division and subdi-vision which Ave have noted among theAmerican Mongoloids, and again notewith greater wonder among the peoplesof Central and Southern Africa. Butnotwithstanding this tribal division, be-lo
. 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 . AFFIRS—SOUTH AFRICAN 1YTKS. most infinite tribal division and subdi-vision which Ave have noted among theAmerican Mongoloids, and again notewith greater wonder among the peoplesof Central and Southern Africa. Butnotwithstanding this tribal division, be-longing, as it does, to the loAvest gradeof human development, we find in such. ZULU KAFFIRS—SOU Ill AFRICAN TYPES. a state a sameness of the race consideredas a whole. Slight differences, geo-graphical location, and mere name arethe facts on which the tribal divisionsare based. The essential unity of thebarbarians is the fact which impressesitself upon the inquirer. It is the unity A FRICA N NIGRITIA NS. —E THNIC CLA SSIFICA TION. 633 of the nebula, parted into flecks andpatches, but having- essential continuityof substance and kind. After this stage we come to the evo-lutionary epoch, in which ethnic differ-ences appear strongly as An intermediate x x . stage of great the ground of classification. differences. TT . r How great, lor instance,was the difference between the Greeksand the Persians! Aye, more; howgreater, we might say, was the differ-ence between the Attic and the DorianGreeks ! In such stages of human historythe social evolution, as well as the polit-ical, is strongly operative. Men undersuch influences become strongly localizedand patriotic. T
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