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 (1897) (14781203884)

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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University



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SEMIBARBARISM ILLUSTRATED—THE NORTH ASIATIC MANNER.— Tungusic Sorcerer.Drawn by Victor Adam, after a sketch of the Count de Rechberg. Catholicism out of Siberia and theA Vest. We may note also a grade of semi-barbarity peculiar to North Africa andto some portions of Eastern Semibarbarism A of the Moors and and Southeastern Asia.Perhaps the semibar-barous life of the Moors is the high-est estate of mankind below the level ofcivilization. Sinne of the usages of theMoors and Berbers look in one direction contact with foreign nations, the Moorshave the manners peculiar to the ruderforms of civilization. But in their racecustoms—those which they have de-rived from the past—they are distinctlybarbaric. Their personal mannersamone themselves have the sense andflavor of a remote and barbaric past.Their wild dances and crude religiousceremonies ally the race with the barba-rians, leaving only a small reason for
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406 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. classifying them with the civilized peo-ples of the world. Several important inferences are nowto be drawn from the subject-matter ofthe present chapter. It remains to sum-marize the results and to state theirmeaning. The reader will, doubtless,already have deduced several conclusionsfrom his study of the preceding chap-ters ; but it will be of additional interestto state in a few paragraphs the leadingtruths which follow as a logical conclu-sion from premises furnished by thestudy and comparison of prehistoric andmodern barbarism. repulsive features. What the cave menof Western Europe and the shell-moundpeople of the shores of the Baltic werein the post-pliocene era—when themammoth was still a denizen of West-ern Europe and America, when thehairy rhinoceros and the reindeer werein the valleys of the Seine and the Loire,when the cave bear and the cave hyenaand the Bos primigenius still maintainedtheir existence from the northern oceanto the Pyrenees—tha