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 .. . enaway by degrees, re-laxed, insensibly atfirst and sensibly af-terwards, their hold ofpower, and crumbledaway until attack fromwithout and feeble-ness from within havejoined their forces tocomplete an inevitabledownfall. It is hardly neededto recite examples ofnational decay. It isalmost superfluous torecount the tremen-dous domination onceestablished in the val-ley of the Nile, nowrepresented by Arabsheiks, mise
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 .. . enaway by degrees, re-laxed, insensibly atfirst and sensibly af-terwards, their hold ofpower, and crumbledaway until attack fromwithout and feeble-ness from within havejoined their forces tocomplete an inevitabledownfall. It is hardly neededto recite examples ofnational decay. It isalmost superfluous torecount the tremen-dous domination onceestablished in the val-ley of the Nile, nowrepresented by Arabsheiks, miserable col-lections of degenerateCopts in squalid vil-lages, and a few de-graded fellahs plow-ing with oxen in theglebe by the riverbanks. The earlyChaldaean empire atthe mouth of the Eu-phrates has left onlyscattered monumentaltraces. The glory ofthe Assyrians and ofthe later Babylonianshas passed foreverfrom the valley of thet w o great tremendous Turcomans, iron for-gers at the first from the minesof the Altais, who came as conquerors M.—Vol. i—25 into Western Asia, surrounded the cityof Constantine and made it their capital,are now degenerated into the opium. EXAMPLE OF RACK DETERIORATION — RUBBISH-BEARER Of EGYFT. Drawn by Gustave Richter. smokers and harem builders of the Bos-phorus. The splendor of Athens andthe glory of the Athenian intellect have 378 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. given way, through long ages, to for-eign domination, and the traveler standssad-hearted among the ruins of theAcropolis, or marks with astonishment
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