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) (14596670000)

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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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e of the relicsof this age are positively ele-gant. Design reaches as faras ornamentation and real art.Actual genius is displayed,even though it be in the carv-ing of a knife-blade or thedecoration of a razor. It is not needed in this con-nection to follow the lines ofprogress downward from themost primitive ages, since ouronly purpose in these chap-ters is to approximate thedate of the beginning of the career ofman. The testimony of archaeologyArchaeological taken altogether is entirelyJooorma?enJtCh0er- corroborative of that drawnother sciences. fr0m astronomical sourcesand of the evidences gained by geolog-ical study. Indeed, the whole web of«proof holds together, and presents aunity of structure which could hardly have been expected considering therecent date of the physical sciences andthe still imperfect knowledge which menhave gained respecting the former con-ditions of the earth and its inhabitants. If we turn, in the next place, to pa-laeontology, we shall find the same cor-
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Small knives from Denmark.EXAMPLES OF PREHISTORIC WORKMANSHIP, FROM BRONZE AGE. roboration in proof, and virtually thesame examples in illustration. It is thepeculiarity of the study be- palaeontology afore us that, beginning ^tgfcaTin-from an astronomical basis <iuiry-and working our way downward throughmany branches of investigation to com-mon tradition and history, the successivesubjects seem to anticipate one another 110 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. in their results. Geological inquiry in-cludes as one of its departments archaeol-