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 .. . -ered beautiful by the mostcritical judgment of West-ern peoples. The character of theGypsy race is bad in the last degree. Mendicant and Both mtn^SSSr and women race-are usually degraded. Itis not, however, chargedthat they have licentioushabits. They are addictedto every sharp practice bywhich rogues and thievesobtain property that is nottheir own. They are con-scienceless, and are un-acquainted with religiousob
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 .. . -ered beautiful by the mostcritical judgment of West-ern peoples. The character of theGypsy race is bad in the last degree. Mendicant and Both mtn^SSSr and women race-are usually degraded. Itis not, however, chargedthat they have licentioushabits. They are addictedto every sharp practice bywhich rogues and thievesobtain property that is nottheir own. They are con-scienceless, and are un-acquainted with religiousobligation. It has been de-clared by some scholars inlanguage that there is noGypsy word for soul or im-mortality or God. Theypretend to the fortune tell-ers lore and to skill inpalmistry, and to everyother species of magic,from card-playing to theblack art of the is the great cen-tral fact in the constitution of India. Allof the races inhabiting that vast countryor emanating therefrom be- _. m ° Fixedness the tray in their beliefs and central fact inpractices the unaltered con-ditions of a former life. While the West-ern Aryans, as we shall see hereafter,. 748 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. have been almost infinitely inflected intheir development, the Indie branch ofthe race fell at an early age into estab-lished forms, to amend or alter whichlias been regarded as innovation andsacrilege. In this respect India may be rankedwith the Egypt that was and the Chinathat is. Doubtless the Hamites in an-Comparisons cient Egyptian society werewith the Ham- more fixed in a given so- ltes and the & Chinese. ciai structure, less subject to fluctuation and evolution into newforms, than are the Indie races of Chinese also, who change not at allfrom generation to generation, who re-gard all movement or progress from theold and approved constitution of thingsas a useless and dangerous departurefrom the best attainable standard, aredoubtless an intenser form of social
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