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 .. . rom place to place isslow. It involvescamping, temporarysettlement, and a testof the locality as to fgfflglits resources and suit-ableness for perma-nent abode. Theethnic movement isthus tentative in itswhole course. It putsout in this directionand in that, testingthe climate and theresources of the re-gion, and spreadinginto different tracts adjacent until thecourse of further migration is determinedby the inviti
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 .. . rom place to place isslow. It involvescamping, temporarysettlement, and a testof the locality as to fgfflglits resources and suit-ableness for perma-nent abode. Theethnic movement isthus tentative in itswhole course. It putsout in this directionand in that, testingthe climate and theresources of the re-gion, and spreadinginto different tracts adjacent until thecourse of further migration is determinedby the inviting or uninviting character ofthe borders beyond. There is a sense inwhich the migrating tribe is alwaystempted to proceed on its way in a givendirection. The imagination is alluredto the extent of inciting a new depar-ture. While the natural instinct of therace, in the form of cupidity or the spirit of adventure, furnishes the bottomimpulse of the progress, the suggestionsof the natural world determine its courseand the rapidity and oscillations of theforward movement. The north-bound migration which wehave here described, and which endedwith the Aral sea, contributed an abo-. KARAKALPACK TYPES—TWO by A. Ferdirmndus. riginal race between the Oxus and theCaspian. Here a single Indo-Europeanfamily is represented whichdoubtless owes its originto the very primitivemovement just , whose territory lies immedi-ately north of the Atrek river, whichempties into the Lower Caspian fromthe east, are probably of Aryan descent, Northern limitsof Aryan disper-sion in Asia. The Kara- 4S4 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. as arc also a second tribe, called the Us-beks, who have their habitat further tothe north ; also the Tadshiks, holding thecountry immediately south of the sea ofAral, at the debouchure of the Oxus, areIndo-Europeans, and are the northern-most of the Aryan peoples of Asia east-ward of the Caspian sea. the Caucasus. Defined in terms of an-cient geography,
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