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 .. . ogist to be satisfac-tory within the narrow limits of theraces and countries to which it ap-plies; but it also appears that thereare many parts of the globe whichare known to have been inhabitedat a time even more remote thancurrent chronology assigns to therise of the Noachite nations forwhich the plan of dispersion pre-sented above seems to provide nolikelihood or even possibility ofinhabitants. How far the Hebr
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 .. . ogist to be satisfac-tory within the narrow limits of theraces and countries to which it ap-plies; but it also appears that thereare many parts of the globe whichare known to have been inhabitedat a time even more remote thancurrent chronology assigns to therise of the Noachite nations forwhich the plan of dispersion pre-sented above seems to provide nolikelihood or even possibility ofinhabitants. How far the Hebrewscheme of dispersion and developmentfrom a Noachite origin through its threeleading branches of Hamites, Semites,and Japhethites conforms to other ethno-logical outlines derived from differentdata and by means of different methodsof investigation, remains to be elucidatedin the following pages. II. Historical Ethnology, -r- With the progress of historical investigationduring the last three or four origin and de-centuries SO much illfor- yflopmentof historical eth- mation has been gathered n° to the first races of men andtheir movements across the ancient land-. INDO-EUROPEAN TYPE—THE SULTAN MACOUD by H. Thiriat, from a photograph by Madame Dieulafoy. scape, that a system of ethnic classifica-tion has been advanced from a purelyhistorical basis. It was known, or sus-pected, by the Romans and Greeks twothousand years ago that they were re-lated in their descent. Later on it be-came known that such peoples as theMedes and Persians were of the samerace-origin with the Macedonians and 416 GREAT RACKS OF MANKIND. the Hellenes. In still more recent timesit was discovered that the Teutonic raceshad an ethnic affinity with the Graeco-Italic family and with the Celts of West-ern Europe. Still more recently it be-came known that the Hindu races weredescended, in all probability, from acommon origin with the Greeks, the Ro-mans, and the Teutonic branches of ma
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