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 .. . barouspeoples. 4. The chief difference between theaspect of modern barbarism and that ofAncient and the primitive world is in current barba- -j . j ? » j- . • » . • rism differently lts geographical distribution. distributed. Tne disposition of modernsavagery is very different as it respectsthe habitable surface of the globe fromthat of the ancient world. In the earli-est epochs accessible to our informationsavage
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 .. . barouspeoples. 4. The chief difference between theaspect of modern barbarism and that ofAncient and the primitive world is in current barba- -j . j ? » j- . • » . • rism differently lts geographical distribution. distributed. Tne disposition of modernsavagery is very different as it respectsthe habitable surface of the globe fromthat of the ancient world. In the earli-est epochs accessible to our informationsavagery was distributed into all partsand places. It had possession of the M.—Vol. 1—27 choicest regions of the globe. There was a time when it was the centra! fact inAsia, in Europe, and in the two Ameri-cas. Until the present century it wasstill the central fact in Australia, butthe growth and spread of civilizationhas displaced its barbaric the first the savage state gave awayin the river valleys of the East and inthose choice peninsulas which dropclown from the northern continentsinto the southern waters. In a laterstage barbarism receded from the re-. UNPROGRESSIVE CONDITION—MINCOPA MAN, FROM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. gions north of the great mountainchains. The central portions of thecontinents were reclaimed, and therewas a recession, a retreat, of savagerytoward the borders of the world. The general result has been the ex-tirpation of the barbarous condition inall the central and better civilization has crowded sav- parts of the habitable globe, agery out of the K., , better parts of is in these best re- the world. gions of the world that the great powersare planted. Here they flourish, and inproportion as they are vigorous andpossess the elements of perpetuity, theyextend themselves, by \ arying con-quests, toward the horizon. Savagery 410 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. has fallen back before this movementand isnow compelled to occupy the fur-ther coasts of th
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