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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y obdurate as it stood inthe primeval ages. But the race whichwas precipitated along the Baltic was aspersistent as the physical world was for-bidding. In one part the primevalforest, dark and ominous, and the greatsluggish rivers, rolling down their bedsof ooze, were the enemies of progress anddevelopment. In another part it wasthe ocean, surging back and forth overthe lowlands, alternately covering anduncovering the vast and coveted regionswhich were only exhibited for a fewhours at a time. The Teuton made aleag-ue against the woods and the sea.The one he destroyed, and the other he 554 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. forced back and compelled to standaloof. If Northern Europe could beviewed with a telescope from the inter-planetary spaces, a great change wouldbe noticed in this region of our world- Semitic and Hamitic tribes we shallfind but little modification in the trackwhich they have pursued. This is part-ly attributable to the nature of the coun-tries into which they threw themselves
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INAB1T.TTY OF BLACKS TO MODIFY ENVIRONMENT.-African Town on RiVER.-Drawn by Riou. disk from the dark and dolorous aspectwhich it presented in the prehistoricages. We thus note that the conspicuouschanges which have been effected on theThe Aryan belt surface of the earth by thepresents the agency of man have been most remarkable & J transformation, measurably limited to thegreat belt through which the Aryan racesflowed to the west. If we take up the in their primitive migrations. The cir-cuit of Arabia furnishes little oppor-tunity for the agency of man as it re-spects the landscape. At the presenttime it may readily be observed howlittle, on the whole, the Arabs, fromtheir manner of life, and particularlyfrom the nature of the countries whichthey hold, have been able to transformthe physical condition of the earth. DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 555 But apart from the fact that naturein a treeless and riverless regionHamiticand does not invite the trans-5S£S

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