With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men (1915) (14741553176)

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Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : Clark E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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HAREOR 111 UN by Barclay, afte: of Hellas. No other country in theworld has had so great variety and sogreat abundance. True, the area wasnot large; btit nature was here in herintensest mood. vShe gave of her riches.Her wealth was at first hand. And soamid this abundance the Hellenic fam-ily, notably the lonians and the Dorians,began their career. They reached forththeir hand and took from the hand of naost varied and abundant resources ofthe natural world, as it respects whatthings soever sprang from Balancing ofthe bosom of the earth, but ISmLns^fthey also found themselves subsistence,in a region where the old struggle withanimal life continued. There was ahappy balancing of the vegetable andthe animal kingdom, as well as a paral-lelism between the two in respect to va-
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THE GREEKS.—I/IiLD AND MARKET. 107 riety and fecundity. Tlic hills of prim-itive Greece teemed with all manner ofliving creatures. The wild boar, thewolf, the bear, the lynx, the wild cat,the jackal, and the fox were everywhereand abounded. The wild goat was thenan inhabitant of Greece, and to this dayfinds, so far as Europe is concerned, hislast refuge in some of the islands of thearchipelago. Game has ever been abun-dant in Hellas. The red deer, the fal-low deer, the roe, the hare, the rabbit,and innumerable other varieties of ani-mated creatures, hoofed and pawed,winged or finned, provoked the adven-turous Greek to the excitements of thechase. Here, then, we have the beginnings ofthe food-supply of the Hellenic race. Greece created But this waS not all. The T^ZSrf^ country was created forcommerce. commerce. Everywhere the ocean has eaten into the land, and every-where the land reaches into the sea. Har-bors are without number. The wholecoast is virtually a haven. As if not sat-is