Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
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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of the field ofinquiry, have adopted the theory ofpolygenesis; that is, the doctrine of themultiple origin of mankind. According PLACE OF THE BEGINNING.—QUEST OF EDEN. 151 to this belief, the race has sprung fromseveral fountains wide apart in placeTheory of the and time. There has beeno^naS^ro- one fountain for the Blackpounded. races of Africa and Aus- tralia, another for the Asiatic Mongo-loids, another for the Polynesians, an-other for the nomadic races of NorthernAsia, another for the Indo-European,or Aryan, family, and still another, orperhaps more than one, for the aborigi- the inquiry as to the geographical locusof the first men is in great measuretaken away. Should it be shown thatthe human race has had more than onepoint of original departure, then it mayhave had ten places of beginning or ahundred. Indeed, if we adopt the poly-genetic theory, we put the inquiry uponanother foundation—that of supposingthat when the earth was in a certaincosmical stage of development and
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TO PEOPLE THE EARTH.—Drawn by Riou. nal races of the American continents.From these several points of departurethe vines of diverse human life havesprung and extended themselves bydevious growth over the surface of theearth. We may not here pause to considerthe merits of the two opposing theoriesPoiygenesis if of the single and multiple£SSS£« 01%in of mankind. It isin the inquiry. sufficient to note the factthat if the hypothesis of poiygenesis beadmitted as true, then the interest in preparation the conditions antecedentto man-life were present and prevalentover a large part of the globe, fromwhich conditions human existence wasas likely to take its origin in this placeas in that. Hereafter we shall consider the valueof such a theory as explanatory of themanner and means by opposite view 1 • 1 .1 . „__ ^r more accordant which the appearance of with facts andman on the earth is to be ac- reason,counted for. But for the present weshall take up the opposite view as more 152 GRE

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