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 .. . uate analysis of the hu-man family according to those distinc- 411 412 GREAT RACKS OF MANKIND. tions upon wnich the tribal and nationallife of one people is discriminated fromthat of another. It is impossible tospeak intelligently of the early migra-tions of mankind without a division andclassification of the human species, tothe end that its various parts may beconsidered in detail and in relation theone with ano
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 .. . uate analysis of the hu-man family according to those distinc- 411 412 GREAT RACKS OF MANKIND. tions upon wnich the tribal and nationallife of one people is discriminated fromthat of another. It is impossible tospeak intelligently of the early migra-tions of mankind without a division andclassification of the human species, tothe end that its various parts may beconsidered in detail and in relation theone with another. Such a classificationinto different races, families, and stocksis the first task imposed upon the eth-nologist, and is a work in every way race according to its true ethnic distine-tions has never been satisfactorily ac-complished. The principle accordingto which the division or divisions are tobe made has never been well determined,and the problem at the present day isstill to be considered in its originalelements. It can but be of interest in this con-nection to present in brief some of theleading methods which have been adopt-ed in the attempted classification of the. A METHOD OF MIGRATION.—Eastern Caravan.—Drawn by W. J. Morgan. essential to the understanding of thebeginnings of human history. The division of the vegetable kingdomby Linnaeus, and the arrangement of theNo adequate animal world into generamethod of cias- | specjcs anc] varieties sifymg yet dis- -t covered. by Cuvier, were not more essential to the understanding of thosetwo-great departments of nature than isan adequate classification of mankindinto races, families, and types essentialto a knowledge of ethnic history. Great,therefore, is the embarrassment of theinquirer to fkid that even to the presentday this work of classifying the human human race. The most learned of the an-cients were profoundly ignorant of the af-finities Of the different fam- The ancients be- ilies of mankind, and found divers
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