The history of mankind (1896) (14783569373)

Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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up towith a certain laxity. The permission of polygamy and slavery gives it anincomparable advantage compared with Christianity. The prohibition of theformer indeed excludes from Christianity, at all events until a profound moralrenovation takes place, all those persons of property whose higher social positionis above all things indicated by the ability to keep several wives, and for whomthis is the chief satisfaction derived from their wealth. Upon this institution, towhich even missionaries do not always venture to offer stubborn opposition, andwhich quite recently in the southern Ural has caused hundreds of Tartars torenounce Christianity under the eyes of Russian officials, a great part of theinfluence of Islam depends. The general upshot is that Islam is usually bettersuited to the society and polity of the least advanced races, and is allied with acivilization all the closer to theirs for the reason that the place of its origin isnearer their own both in locality and in climate.
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Printed by Ehe Bibliographisches (nsütut, Leipzig WEAPONS, UTENSILS,AND ORNAMENTS OFAMERICAN INDIANS.