. 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. literary of such development arefound as early as the eleventh in order came the Servian, andthen the Croatian, the Carinthian, theStyrian, etc. All of these tongues havedeveloped into literary form, and arenow fixed as the esta
. 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. literary of such development arefound as early as the eleventh in order came the Servian, andthen the Croatian, the Carinthian, theStyrian, etc. All of these tongues havedeveloped into literary form, and arenow fixed as the established dialects ofa common vSlavonic stock. In the Westwe have the Polish and the Bohemianlanofuaofes, with their fine evolution intoclassical forms. The Polish tongue is 154 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of late, tlioiigli precocious, dates from the fourteenth Bohemian goes back to the tenth,while the Servian, Moravian, and thelike, are as late as the sixteenth centuryin their evolution. Thus by a series ofstages the Slavonic tongues have moved cause of joining all the Slavs in a singlegreat family on the basis of a commonlanguage and institutions. This pro-ject has found strong advocates through-out all the Slavonian countries, espe-cially in those that lie along the bordersof the Germanic and other races. Thus,. IMPERIAL LIBRARY out of the barbaric into the literarycharacter. We mav here remark upon that greatmovement of modern timer., imiou the attempt at a PansTavicofaii Slavs on ^^nion. Many of the lead- the basis of Ian- - guage. \xi,r minds of the Russian raj2 have devoted themselves to the — Drawn by De la Charlerie. i for example, the Bohemian and Hunga-I rian vSlavs, as veil as the Servian and: many of the Poles, have l\)und them-selves in a condition Avhere they wereI likely to be absorbed by other pride of race has led them to de-sire the maintenance of such a Slavic1 uni(^n as would maintain the nationality THE
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