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) (14597039977)

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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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iliar, but by a criterion fixedfor the particular thing to be defined. The Tungusic barbarians live thewild life of hunters and fishermen.They tame the reindeer, using that ani-mal for both food and draught. In likemanner they train their dogs to drawtheir sledges. They live a half-seden-tary life, having a rude society and thebeginnings of usages that in higher 404 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. progress would be defined as civil. Thedomestic estate is in a correspondingstage of development. The religiouslife has been vaguely determined by anative faith which is called Shamanism,and by the vague outreaching influencesof Lamaism from the side of the Mon-golian countries, and the touch of Greek and others in the other; that is, one as-pect of the Moorish life seems to ap-proximate the conditions present in Eu-rope and the Americas, while anotheraspect is distinctly barbarous. In their commercial transactions, andindeed in all of those parts of their pub-lic life in which they are brought into
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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