Ridpath's Universal history - an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the (14781932444)

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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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n of Tula ; 38, 39, workmen of Tula ; 40, girl of Dankov ; 41, girl of Riazan ; 42, girl of Tambov ; 43, 44, men of Kursk ; 45, 46, girls of Lgov THE SLAVS.—RUSSIANS PROPER. 133 not naturally fertile, but it was naturallyeasy, and the race was strong. If themodern ethnologist be required to selectfrom among the races of men the typewhich has the greatest animal vitality,which can most endure, which can standthe severest shock, to whom even theblow of battle is not fatal, the Slav, theRussian, must be chosen at once. Hehas been such from antiquity, at leastfrom the Dark Agfes. With this was sources. At this time the southwesternplains were peopled, also the valley ofthe Vistula. In the ninth . Contributions to century the Upper VivStula the populationwas populated. At thattime the Lithuanians lay on the west,Finnish tribes on some borders, andTurkish tribes on others, mixed some-what with the expanding Slavonianpopulation. Far in the southeast theTurkish Moneolians still continued to
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NOMADS OF THE NORTH—TYPES.—Drawn by A. Paris, from a photograph. coupled great fecundity. It makes littledifference by what name we call thisvast northeastern fountain of Aryan hu-manity. It is sufficient that it existed.While the East supplied its emigratingtribes, the native disposition of the race,its power of increasing and enduring,constituted the secondary causes whichled to the multiplication of barbarism formany centuries, until at last it loomedup, dark and ominous, along all thefrontiers of the civilized parts of Europe.It was, perhaps, in the eighth andninth centuries that Russia received itsfinal contributions from ultra-European extend their sway. The Udrains lefttheir abodes in the Ural mountains andmade their way across a large part ofEurope into the valley of the Danube. It appears, however, that these move-ments are not as rapid and violent asmight have been expected. The country of-We have said and repeated f^ni^rS-nr^that the country was so wide races.and open a