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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paniard and the mother an Indianwoman. Here, again, in the first gener-ation a distinction appears among thechildren. The Mestizos fluctuate fromthe fathers to the mothers side, and,though somewhat more persistent thanthe Mulattoes, they either revert orperish. That indefinable type, called Creolein those countries where the word is 544 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. used to designate half-breeds, shows the same or analogous tendencies. The Zambo, or cross between Crosses of Amer- . icanaborigines the Negro and the Indian, with Negroes. .g ^^ ft few generations undiscoverable as a separate type. Thatis, the Zambo can only be perpetuatedby the repetition of the original cross. or forces which occasion the departureof one type of people from another, andthe development of each Ethnic instinctsinto diverse forms of ac- llT*?™^™ creation ana tivity, we should, perhaps, birth,find the answer to our inquiry in thenature of procreation and birth. There isa human instinct which, in virtue of its
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MIXED TYPES—MEXICAN WOMEN.—Drawn by Riou. So, likewise, of the Cholo of SouthAmeriea, the Pardo and the Mamalucoof Brazil, the Chino of Mexico andSpanish Ameriea, the Cafuso, or Negro-Indian cross, of Brazil, and in general ofall varieties and shades of the so-calledmixed races of mankind. If we are disposed to look into whatmay be called the origin of races,that is, the very primary circumstances own nature, hovers around the fact ofmaternity. Still deeper down than thissomewhat ireneralized sentiment thatcovers the mother, there is an instinct ofthe mother herself for her offspring.This is sufficiently strong even in ani-mals to stimulate intelligence and fore-thought. The mother does not abandonher child. She protects it, nurses it.Otherwise, there were no perpetuity. DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—MIXED FORMS. 545 This maternal impulse is the bottom faet in the ethnic dispersion of mankind. . The mother is bound to her All race disposi-tions arise from child by the law of her be

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