. 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 . The Russians must educate. If they educatethey must emancipate themselves. Theemancipation, if it come, must sweepaway much that now is, beginning withthe government itself! Hence the war-fare between the Slavic mind and itscivil and political environment. Theautocracy sees the necessity of movingforward along the lines of that
. 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 . The Russians must educate. If they educatethey must emancipate themselves. Theemancipation, if it come, must sweepaway much that now is, beginning withthe government itself! Hence the war-fare between the Slavic mind and itscivil and political environment. Theautocracy sees the necessity of movingforward along the lines of that universal pulsion of a barbarous past, has comeinto an inheritance which it can notmaintain without destroying itself! We may now go forward to considersome of the leading developments of thisgreat race. From the Ian- Relations ofguages spoken it has taken 3ch:me offr^the name of Slavic,- or A study of these languageshas shown the race-affinity of theRussian peoples and the cognate nationswith the Teutonic branch of mankind,and more largely with the Aryan divi- 152 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. sion of the liuinan race. As already in- Slavic division shoiild be derived directlydicated, it has been a matter of dispute from the old Indo-European =^ C2=^ A MULLAH EXPOLNTilNi; THE >.:.wn by H. RuuiScau. whether the Letto-Slavic stem should beset into the Teutonic after the departureof the latter from the greater westernbranch of Aryanism, or whether the Probably the Germanic and Slavic racesflowed together for a certain distancein time and space before they separatedinto their respective channels. THE SLA \ S.—LANGUAGE. 153. These views are supported by a studyof the Teutonic and Slavic the latter, of all the great divi-sions of Aryan speech, has received theleast critical attention. The lateness ofits literary development and the remote-ness of the races speaking Slavonicdialects have led to a neglect of theirstudy, and at the present
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