Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . eate archi-tectural monuments. As already intimated, however, thediscussion of these topics leads us into the subject-matter which hasbeen reserved for the detailed account of the industrial and social life of thedifferent races of mankind. We havenow reached the threshold of that dis-cussion. In the former chapters wehave endeavored to delineate the primi-tive condition of the human race, and thetribal departures a


Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . eate archi-tectural monuments. As already intimated, however, thediscussion of these topics leads us into the subject-matter which hasbeen reserved for the detailed account of the industrial and social life of thedifferent races of mankind. We havenow reached the threshold of that dis-cussion. In the former chapters wehave endeavored to delineate the primi-tive condition of the human race, and thetribal departures and migrations by whichthe race was originally distributed to thevarious quarters of the globe. In thecurrent chapter we have endeavored tolook down, as from a high point of view,upon the various families of men, and tonote a few of the leading features bywhich they are distinguished. We shallnow take up for consideration the de-tails of the methods and manner of lifeamong the principal families of man-kind, and shall attempt to depict the es-sential facts and some of the peculiarincidents in the past and present condi-tion of the leadina: divisions of our


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