. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ry ofancient conquest is likely to reader generally gains an exagger-ated notion of the transformation effectedby the victory of one army over another,and the capture of a capital. These •^See Ridpaths Universal History, Book Third,pp. 162-190. THE A RAM JEANS.—MODERN KURDS. 219 shocks do not, as a matter of fact, ex
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ry ofancient conquest is likely to reader generally gains an exagger-ated notion of the transformation effectedby the victory of one army over another,and the capture of a capital. These •^See Ridpaths Universal History, Book Third,pp. 162-190. THE A RAM JEANS.—MODERN KURDS. 219 shocks do not, as a matter of fact, ex-tinguish the nationality of the subjugatedpeople. Their piiblic and political lifeis transformed and supplanted by otherpowers. But the masses of the jieopleconstituting a given division of mankindare not exterminated and replaced bymen of another stock. This was true inthe instance before tis. Nineveh was sacked by the Medes, and Saracus, thelast of Assyrian kings, died, either bythe enemys assault or by his own the race of Asshur continued tooccupy these countries during the ageswhen Rome was mistress of the world,and afterwards when the Crescent wascarried triumphantly through the coun-tries of Western Asia. ;ter cm.—The a^oderx NE of the most inter-esting inquiries whichthe student of humanhistory finds in thefield before him is thatwhich considers themodern descendantraces and representatives of the peoplesof ancient renown. In what sense, forinstance, do the Italians represent theRoman race? To what degree andModern Kurds measurc uiav wc dlscovcr^^aTw Iral^ the ancient Greek in them^ans. desccndeut Suliote and Albanian? The same question recurs,but more obscurely, in our search for theliving representatives of the ancient raceof Asshur. In general, we may acceptthe Kurds as preserving all the ethniclife that still exists of the ancient race;but the preservation is very indefinite,and the effort to follow the lines ofdescent scarcely worth th
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