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 .. . e scientific method inclassifying the different races of men,and to use the color of the body as thefundamental fact in considering thescheme of division. In all the sub-sequent parts of the present work, in the description of the migrations of theprimitive tribes and families of men, inthe delineation of manners and customs,and the peculiarities of national develop-ment which will in great measure fillup the body
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 .. . e scientific method inclassifying the different races of men,and to use the color of the body as thefundamental fact in considering thescheme of division. In all the sub-sequent parts of the present work, in the description of the migrations of theprimitive tribes and families of men, inthe delineation of manners and customs,and the peculiarities of national develop-ment which will in great measure fillup the body of the work, it is purposedto keep always in mind this fundamentaldivision of mankind into, I. RuimaRaces; II. Brown Races; III. BlackRaces; with their manifest divisionsinto the three branches, Hamite, Semite,and Aryan in the first; three divi-sions of Asiatic Mongoloids, PolynesianMongoloids, and Dravidians, in thesecond; and four branches, Negroes,Australians, Hottentots, and Papuans, inthe third. These ten race classes of man-kind will constitute the basis of muchof the discussion in the present and thesucceeding volumes. CHAPTER XXIV.—NOACHITE DISPERSION CONSID* O far as the present re-sources of humanknowledge have indi-cated the primary seatand early movementsof the Ruddy races ofmankind, the same be-gan on the north shores of the westerngulf of the Indian ocean. The scene ofthis important primitive aspect of therace was probably in the southern partof Beluchistan, eastward from the Per-sian gulf. When these statements aremade the whole of our knowledge on thesubject may be said toSSfidaSs. have been delivered. His-tory knows little besides ofthe time or the advent of this primarystream of human existence; but it canhardly be doubted that this is the real seat of the Adamite and his have generally been dis-posed to go further, to trace backwards thestream of this division of the race to theshores of ocean, and thence to carry itby hypot
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