. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . \///////////////////////////////s//////////////// /\ * ;.*.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.:../.:../. / / / /.../ ////////// / / / / / / / / s / / / / /.././ / / /> BOOK XXX-AUSTRALIANS AND PAPUANS. Chapter Indians and Vedda
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . \///////////////////////////////s//////////////// /\ * ;.*.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.../.:../.:../. / / / /.../ ////////// / / / / / / / / s / / / / /.././ / / /> BOOK XXX-AUSTRALIANS AND PAPUANS. Chapter Indians and N the preceding chap-ters we have dis-patched by far thelarger and more im-portant division of theBlack races of man-kind. The Africansare manifoldly .more numerous and vastin all proportions than are the remainingBlacks of Australia and Papua. But, aswe have said, importance in ethnologicalimportance of inquiry is not in all casesraces not corre- ^terminable by numbers. lative with J numbers. The interest of the study frequently turns on small groups ofmen, mere tribes and communities,remotely situated, and possibly dimin-ishing in numbers. The importancedepends—or at least the interest depends?—upon the emplacement, the situation,the relation of the given tribes to others,or, perhaps, upon the peculiar ethniccharacteristics of an otherwise incon-siderable people. This feature of ethnological inquiryfinds its analogue in the botanical study•of the products of the earth. The trees that constitute the forests of the world,for instance, do not have an interest com-mensurate with
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