Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14583902050)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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GATHERING WILD HONEY.—Drawn by Tofani, from a description. is the nature of the case) in every part ofthe earth rely in the first place, and prin-cipally, upon the animal kingdom forfood. It is natural and necessary that islands she may thus supply the prin-cipal wants of the inhabitants; but inall regions of the temperate and colderzone the native races must take and kill
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A USTRALIANS.—DOMESTIC LIFE. 713 from landside and air and water theobjects of their desire. This difference in the food supply liesat the basis of the difference whichwe discover between the arctic and thetropical aborigines. The latter are, onthe whole, greatly superior to the former.The barbarians of all the frigid parts ofthe earth sink to a lower or lowest estate.It would appear, also, that within thetropics the insular are greatly superiorto the continental savages. The sepa-ration of aborigines into small islandgroups within the tropical belt, or sub-tropical waters, by the interposition ofseas, with the accompanying circum-stance of abundant vegetable products,would appear to be the most favorablecondition for the development of bar-barian life. Other conditions than those of foodsupply are thus seen to enter into theFish-eaters of developing forces ; but theflesh-eating, and in partic-ular the fish-eating, bar-barians sink greatly below the fruit-eat-ers and vegetarians. We