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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ve force on his side. Theweaker would countervail by reason. Itmay not be far from the truth to suggestthat the first check and counterpoise inrudimentary government is the balanceof reason and force. After government had once been in-stituted, in however crude a form, it WTOUld begin to adapt itself Governmental to conditions. There would f^l^tobe an adjustment of the environment.governing fact with the fact governed,similar in all particulars to the adjust-ment of a living organism to its environ-ment. Many tentative efforts wouldperish. A few would survive. Thosesurviving would constitute varieties. InEgypt one of the varieties will become ahierarchy. In the valleys of the Eu-phrates and Tigris another variety willbecome a colossal personal despotism.In one part of Greece a third will be-come an oligarchy, and in another parta fourth will take the form of a democ-racy. There will be a struggle for ex-istence, a survival of the fittest. Some-times the fittest will appear in the form
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240 GREAT RACES OE 31 AX KIND. of a military empire. This will breakup in catastrophe, and a new order, half-chaotic, will supervene, in which theseeds of many things are present. From this state ecclesiasticism willissue as one form, feudalism as anotherform, monarchy as a third. These inturn will struggle and be differentiated.Some elements will perish Stages and as-pects in thedevelopment of wholly. Others will perish government. jn part. Others will sur-vive and nourish and bear unexpectedresults. The great fact called thePeople will appear as an intelligentforce under the law of evolution. Thepeople will itself endeavor to becomegovernmental. It will struggle as a liv-ing force with monarchy and the expir-ing parts of feudalism. Out of the sideof the people will spring by differentia-tion many distinct forces. One of themwill be internationality; one will becommunism. So the struggle will go on, some forand some against the prevailing form.Government in The prevailing form willus

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