. 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. s no longerviolent, but the flux of the Slavonic na-tions toward Constantinople and theWest is as manifest to the eye of thehistorian and ethnographer as it wasfive centuries ago. The reader must be on his guardagainst confounding European Russiawith Asiat
. 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. s no longerviolent, but the flux of the Slavonic na-tions toward Constantinople and theWest is as manifest to the eye of thehistorian and ethnographer as it wasfive centuries ago. The reader must be on his guardagainst confounding European Russiawith Asiatic; that is, against mistakingthe vSlavonic countries for Place and dis- those belonging to the tributionofthe T~. - , . Russian Slavs. Brown races oi vSlavs, if we look at them with re-spect to the Russian empire, are fixedrather in its western part. We may notsuppose that any branch of the race afterthe migratory era ever turned back fromthe hither bank of the Volga. TheAsiatic Russians belong to the vast andvaried families whose ethnography isdifficult and uncertain, but the Slavicraces of European Russia are better un-derstood both as to their derivation anddistribution. As already said, Russia has no holdon the ocean. Even the feeble posses-sions which she had at sea in the lastcentury she has given up. The islands. 130 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the race to maritime posses-sions. which she still holds are littoral, and areregarded as outlying parts of the main-land. It is a whole lesson in history toIndifference of note the Sale, cession, andgift of group after groupof her insular possessionswithin the present century. The sale ofAlaska and the Aleutian archipelago tothe United States, in 1867, is the mostconspicuous example of the disposition ofthe empire to part with her water lands,reserving only continental parts for herimperial growth. We are now to consider the European Russians and the cognate Slavonian tribes. The latter include the Poles and the other mi
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