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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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pal of the questions towhich we here refer are three innumber: i. At what Time in the past—exact orapproximate—did the human race beginits career on the earth ? 2. In what Place—that is, in whatregion or regions of the earth—did man-kind first appear? 37 38 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. 3. What was the Method—the man-ner, the process, or processes—by whichman came into conscious being on ourplanet, rising- into rationality, assertinghis sway as the principal inhabitant ofthe earth, and discovering in himself theability to consider his own thoughts andactions as a study in natural history? These questions, we repeat, may not exhibit in his feeble intellectual activi-ties at least the premonitions of curiosityabout the genesis of his tribe—the originof his kindred and himself. As for himwhose thought and imagination underthe inspiring influences of the civilizedlife have taken wing across all floodsand continents, how keenly, how eagerlydoes he in his flight glance eagle-wise to
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LANDSCAPE OF THE PLIOCENE PERIOD.—Showing Environment at the Time of Mans Appearance.—Drawn by Kiou. be easily put aside. It is in the veryEagerness of nature of man to inquire dil- aSarSfa? W*&y <™d persistently origin, into the time, the place, and the circumstances of his own origin.The disposition to search all the fields ofknowledge in quest of light on theseinquiries is as universal as the humanrace. In some the impulse is stronger;in others, weaker; but in all it exists.It might be difficult to find in any quar-ter of the earth a barbarian so low in thescale of mental development as not to right and left in the hope of discovering-the true beginning and fountain ofthings! In what spirit, then, should thesegreat and vital questions be approached?Certainly in the spirit of hu- True spirit inmility. The honest inquirer J^fiSmust recognize from the be approached,first hour of his research the nature andlimitations of his own powers and theuncertainty of all the sources

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