. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . how great an extent the Russian Slavonian skulls, much more than a thou-sand years old, have been examined, andit has been found that their qualities arereproduced with remarkable fidelity inthe skulls of the present time. Weshould not, however, be so greatly sur-prised at these results. The Slavs have,perhaps, occupied the grea
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . how great an extent the Russian Slavonian skulls, much more than a thou-sand years old, have been examined, andit has been found that their qualities arereproduced with remarkable fidelity inthe skulls of the present time. Weshould not, however, be so greatly sur-prised at these results. The Slavs have,perhaps, occupied the greater part ofthe country between the Black sea andthe Arctic ocean for from ten hundredto thirteen hundred years. We have in- THE SLAVS.—RUSSIANS PROPER. 135 sisted upon the singular uniformity ofthis region—vast marshy woods, risinginto steppes, inhospitable, an unlovingbut not an unloved region, where manhas been subject to few outer vicissitudesand consequently to few changes in him-self. Did the country rise into moun- the accession of Charlemagne or of Al-fred, there could be few reasons assignedsince that period for any remarkable de-parture from the original character ofthe race. Some of the incidental customs havealso tended to preserve in a remarka-. SWAMP FOREST OF RUSSIA.—Drawn by Ue la Charlerie, after a painting of Ruysdael. tains, with long and sheltered valleysstretched here and there at angles, re-ceiving in .some , rejecting inothers, the sunshine—in other words,were the country Greece instead of Rus-sia, Western Europe instead of EasternEurope, we might have expected a dif-ferent result. If we suppose the Rus-sian type, that is, the Slavonian type, tohave been fixed in its character before ble degree the integrity of the Russianform and One of circumstancesthese is that in emigrating that preserve & ^ ethnic features or moving from place to of the Russians. place the Russians do not go singly orby twos and threes, but by whole vil-lages a
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