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 .. . raneanpeoples, as Taiuahit, or white. Yet it isnow well known that these three typesof color and the associated form, feature,and stature of the three peoples to DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—EAST ARYAN DEPARTURE. 475 which they belong, were all of a com-mon ethnic descent. The race of Japheth on the north andeast of Mesopotamia was, in its earlieststages of development, thrown into aPrimitive Ja- region where nature
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 .. . raneanpeoples, as Taiuahit, or white. Yet it isnow well known that these three typesof color and the associated form, feature,and stature of the three peoples to DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—EAST ARYAN DEPARTURE. 475 which they belong, were all of a com-mon ethnic descent. The race of Japheth on the north andeast of Mesopotamia was, in its earlieststages of development, thrown into aPrimitive Ja- region where nature had phethites affect- ° ed by climate greater variety than in any and surround- r d , . , , ings. or the countries where the Semitic and Hamitic families were dis-persed. It was a region of uplands, ris- mer, the quick oncoming of the storm,the biting frost of a comparatively earlyautumn, the high winds, the blasts ofsnow and sleet peculiar to the wintermonths. It is in some sense a climaticmaelstrom, and the Japhetic race waswhirled and beaten in its childhood bythe wild elements that dashed andturned from alternate calm to tempest,and from warm airs to biting blasts and. PASS OF THE ARAXES. ing easily into mountain ranges of con-siderable elevation. It was a country ofsnows, and particularly of storms inwinter. There are few parts of theearth in which vicissitude in temperatureand the whole external mood of natureare more pronounced than in the regionsouth and east of the Caspian. The primitive Japhethites were ex-posed from the beginning to the fullforce of these climatic changes—to theflush of early spring, the heat of sum- freezing sleets. For these reasons theearly Japhethites would, by the turbu-lence of nature, be impressed with great-er restlessness, hardihood, and adven-ture than might be expected in the caseof any other primitive people. How great must have been the influ-ence of such an environment upon sen-sitive peoples recently liberated from aparent stock
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