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 . No races may b _properly defined f antas -white. , ^ world THE RUDDY TYPE—PAUL by H. Thiriat, from a photograph. kind based on the distinction of color,first of all: I. The Ruddy Races.—It is foundwhen this distinction of color is applied tothe great facts tinder consideration thatthe larger part of the historical nations ofthe earth come under the classificationof ruddy. The great races who first 432 GREAT RACES O
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 . No races may b _properly defined f antas -white. , ^ world THE RUDDY TYPE—PAUL by H. Thiriat, from a photograph. kind based on the distinction of color,first of all: I. The Ruddy Races.—It is foundwhen this distinction of color is applied tothe great facts tinder consideration thatthe larger part of the historical nations ofthe earth come under the classificationof ruddy. The great races who first 432 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. redeemed the world from, barbarismwere of this color. It is quite certainthat those strong and heroic peoples whoWTiat races may appear in the remote hori-lLi:ii:T^. ^on of the primitive worldruddy. were ruddy in their complexions. Speaking from a biblicalpoint of view, all three of the Noachite. THE BROWN TYPE—MISTRESS by E. Ronjat. races, with their several divisions, hadcomplexions of this hue. This is truealike of Hamites, Semites, and Japheth-ites. The long prevalent notion thatthe Hamites were a black race, corre-sponding roughly to what we callAfrican, in modern history, is utterlyuntenable. They had, on the contrary,the same general complexion—some- what intensified by the scorching sun ofthe climates in which they were for themost part developed—with the cognateraces of Shem and Japheth. Or, if wespeak from the historical point of view,we shall find the same indications of thefundamental identity in color of theearly races who developed civilization inthe earth. The Indo-Europeanswere all ruddy in the foothills of the Him-alayas across the table-lands of Per-sia into Ionia and Macedonia andGreece and Italy and the isles ofthe gentiles the same fundamen-tal race complexion is discover-able. Likewise, the Semites andthe Hamitic races, n
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