. 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. country was so wide open and so thinly populated as tooffer no strong opposition to the progressof migrating races. It is, however, fromthe consideration of such elementaryconditions as are here presented thatthe usual analysis of the Slavonians
. 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. country was so wide open and so thinly populated as tooffer no strong opposition to the progressof migrating races. It is, however, fromthe consideration of such elementaryconditions as are here presented thatthe usual analysis of the Slavonians into 134 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. three general divisions has been first of these is the Western branch,including- the Poles, the Czechs, and theWends; the second is the Southernbranch, of which the Serbs, the Bulgari-ans, the Croatians, and some others arethe principal ethnic streams; last, theEastern branch, including the GreatRussians, the Little Russians, and the people, like those of many other coun-tries, are composite. In their progressthe vSlavonians have taken The Slavonian in a variety of Finnish na- type composite T P rTA T^- but permanent. tions and of iurco-J^, the Slavonian type has predomi-nated, and this with great has been of much servicealong this line of investigation. Many. UDKIAN VILLAGE OF THIRTEENTH CENTURY.—Prawn by DHenriet. White Russians. To these about threemillion of Ukranians, or Little Rus-sians, in East Galicia and in Polandmust be added. A general survey ofthis distribution will show that thevSlavonians proper are a great compactbody, covering nearly all of the western,central, and southern portions of Russiain Europe. From these elementary conditions wesee to how ereat an extent the Russian vSlavonian skulls, much more than a thou-sand years old, have been examined, andit has been found that their qualities arereproduced with remarkable fidelity inthe skulls of the present time. Weshould not, however,
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