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) (14596768608)

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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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hat locality. Indeed, it isthis particular reasoning which has 176 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. brought us at length to the conclusionthat the most probable locality in whichto establish the first seat of the humanrace was in a continent now submerged be-neath the Indian ocean. If we accept such a hypothesis, thewhole question begins to clear. TheEthnic outlook existence being granted of from the suppo- h continent, to which sitious conti- nent- we may say, once for all, that the name of Lemuria has beenassigned, we are able to look out, as it with fair probability the departure of thepre-Mongolians in the direction of Bel-uchistan or Western India, for in thesecountries the first traces of Mongoloidlife are discoverable. Lastly, we mayimagine a Dravidian line of ethnic de-scent carried almost in the same direc-tion with the pre-Mongolian, uponwhich, in Beluchistan or Eastern Per-sia, we may place the primal develop-ment of the Ruddy, or White, race ofmankind. All of these suppositions are
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BRUSH-TAILED ROCK KANGAROOS. were, along the lines of the primitivedispersion of mankind. To the west wemay note the departure of the Nigritianstem, the presence of which is historic-ally discovered first of all on the mid-eastern coast of Africa. To the east wemay remark in like manner the diver-gence of another line of Black men whosepresence we find within the historicalperiod on the northwestern coast ofAustralia, in New Zealand, and in theextreme south of Hindustan. Withoutchanging our position we may perceive cited in this connection not becausethey include established facts, not be-cause they represent scientific knowl-edge of the first distribution of men, butbecause they do furnish a consistent basisfor such an inquiry and harmonize, asis believed, in every part with the pres-ent results of investigation, and accordwith what may be called the necessitiesof the case. But we are not left entirely to reasonand conjecture as it respects the fixingof the primitive seat of the huma