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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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he 2SSArabian sea. It is to this indicated,part of the earth, as we have alreadysaid, that the ethnic lines of the Aryanraces seem to be traceable. The lati-tude coincides with that great belt ofour globe, running from east to west, inwhich the energies of those races havebeen so magnificently displayed. It isa region presenting those climatic vicis-situdes under which the best disciplineand most vigorous development of thehuman race have been achieved. Aswe have said above, the lines of Aryandescent do seem to arise from the an-cient Iranian region under considera-tion, and to depart to both east andwest, as might be expected, if this werethe starting point of human develop-ment. Limiting our view, therefore, tothe Aryan races only, we might well be-lieve that we had discovered in theregion north of the Persian gulf andincluded between that water and theeastern extension of the Caucasus theoriginal home of man. This supposition, however, is againconfronted with insuperable difficulty
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172 GREAT RACKS OF MANKIND. when we take into consideration theraces other than Indo-European. ThereMongolians and have never been discovered Blacks not de- jn the countrieS SOlltll ofrivable from this region. the fiftieth parallel and west of the sixtieth meridian the slight-est trace of the Mongoloid families ofmen. North of the Caspian and theBlack sea Mongols are abundantly dis-tributed; but on the plateau of Iran,from which Aryan life appears to havetaken its rise, no vestigia of Mongoloidexistence have been found. Still moreis this true of the Blacks. The Nigri-cans have nowhere risen above thetwentieth parallel of north latitude—ex-cept, indeed, in countries like the UnitedStates, where the presence of the Blacksis to be accounted for on other than eth-nic principles. If we attempt to deducethe Black races from what appears tobe the Aryan nidus in Bactria, we areconfronted with the same insuperabledifficulties mentioned above. TheBlack races have not advanced as faralong the

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