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 .. . paragraphs belonged toa still earlier period in the history of therace; all of which facts tend moststrongly to emphasize the necessity of agreat extension and widening out of thewhole scheme of ancient chronology. It is difficult for one removed to mod-ern times and distant countries to realizethe nature and method True nature of primitive tribal of the ethnic migrations of migrations. , • •, T, , antiquity. It i
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 .. . paragraphs belonged toa still earlier period in the history of therace; all of which facts tend moststrongly to emphasize the necessity of agreat extension and widening out of thewhole scheme of ancient chronology. It is difficult for one removed to mod-ern times and distant countries to realizethe nature and method True nature of primitive tribal of the ethnic migrations of migrations. , • •, T, , antiquity. It is not pur-posed in this connection to attempt to hard to obtain. But ever and anon thisrapid volume of the moving race, mostrapid in the vanguard, would flow intoa region which, from its geographicalsituation and its fertility, would invite tosettlement. Here there would be apause. The tribe would spread over thesurface of the country like a lake ofwater running into an inclosed a long time the incoming tribeswould pour along and discharge theirvolume into the reservoir. If the situa-tion were sufficiently auspicious, therewould be, in a short time, the begin-. VERTICAL SECTION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID FROM SOUTH TO ;\, debris; B, vault; C, passage of entry ; D, abutments ; E, chamber of the queen ; F, chamber of the king; G, ancient entrance ; H, primitive facing of granite ; I, K, ventilators. depict the actual manner of tribalremoval from place to place to finalsettlement. One great feature, how-ever, of the migratory progress of ancientpeoples was the alternate speed andcessation of the movement. Sometimesthe migrating horde would pour alonglike a swift stream, traversing in a shorttime vast stretches of country. Suchwas the rate of progress in desert regionsand in mountainous districts where themeans of subsistence were scattered and M.—Vol. i—30 nings of a national development. Themore conservative elements of the tribes WOUld establish themselves
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