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) (14597043517)

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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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xisting barba- mixed evidences of the %Ts^l\Z°progressive and nonpro- nonprogressive,gressive disposition. Many of the exist-ing barbarous races are as absolute intheir savagery as were any of the pre-historic tribes, while others give proofof a forward movement and of actual at-tainment, which may well elicit hopeful-ness and even challenge admiration.The general principle is that the samediversity which we find evidencedamong the races of the primitive world 408 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. exist among the barbarous peoples of thej^resent time; from which it would ap-pear that beyond the pale and influenceof the civilized nations a state of humansociety still exists which is little dissimi-lar to that which the ethnologist discov- bution of mankind. In contemplatingthe barbarous races now inhabiting the Outskirts of the World, we The barbaric life discover little or nothing does not reveal *> its own origin or to inform the judgment as spread. to how savagery begins or ends, or as to
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PROGRESSIVE ELEMENT IN BARBARISM-ILLUSTRATED IN WEAPONS OF NEW ZEALANDERS.I, saw ; 2, chisel; 3, knife ; 4, ax of chipped flint ; 5, spear of ground stone ; 6, ax of polished stone. ers on the remotest horizon of his in-quiry. 3. The study of the existing forms ofbarbarism throws very little light onfundamental questions relative to the ori-gin of savagery and the primitive distri- the ethnic source from which such peo-ples have descended. Their traditions,as already remarked are valueless, andtheir monuments and arts serve only toillustrate the passing phases of theirsocial condition. It is possible for the PRIME VAL M. XN.—B. lR/>\ IRISM ILL (SIR. 1 TED. 409 historian to see in the actions of existingbarbarians those unconscious movementsof man which, in some instances at least,precede the birth and early struggles ofcivilization. Savage tribes in such astate of development—if, indeed, theyare developing at all—are in close anal-ogy with the unconscious period in hu-man lif