Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . le, thetwo are concomitant. The more theman knows the more does he developand direct the civilizing forces. The DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 561 more he uses the forces of civilizationthe more he knows of the principles bywhich universal nature is controlled anddirected. As compared with the other races, theAryan stock has been preeminent inScientific pre- these respects. The dis-eminence of the tinction be
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . le, thetwo are concomitant. The more theman knows the more does he developand direct the civilizing forces. The DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 561 more he uses the forces of civilizationthe more he knows of the principles bywhich universal nature is controlled anddirected. As compared with the other races, theAryan stock has been preeminent inScientific pre- these respects. The dis-eminence of the tinction between them and Indo-European races. the Hamitic and Semitic families of men on the line of scientificachievement is sufficiently broad, and Indo-European, families of mankind onthe other. It is believed that the differences inthe intellectual habits and achievementsof the several races as Knowledge of d£ ^ ., ^ .. « 1 natural law a from a geneial condition of point of observation are perpetuity,most distinct and striking with respect tothis great fact of natural law and the con-nection of man with the material general, barbarians and half-civilized. MASTERY OF NATURE BY MAN.—A Screw Steamer at Sea. when we look at the Brown races ofAsia and Polynesia and at the Blackraces of Africa and Melanesia, we can butbe struck with the strong contrast be-tween the indifference of the latter tonatural law, their inability to controland direct for benefit the forces of thematerial world on the one hand, and thebreadth and profundity of scientificknowledge and the astonishing benefitsderived therefrom by the Aryan, or peoples are utterly subject to the forcesof physical nature. It is not impossiblethat the weakness of the old forms ofcivilization, their want of perpetuity, waschiefly attributable to the prevailing ig-norance of the laws of phenomena; andit is probable that the strength and per-manence of existing institutions are cor-related with the prevalence or the non-prev
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