Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
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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not, this was the origin ofthe progressive movements which werestarted westward. Not, indeed, thatthere was no Asiatic fountain. Thatthere was an Asiatic fountain from whichhave flowed all the Aryan nations is thebottom axiom of all ethnology, but whenwe consider the nature of the countriesinto which the Northwestern Aryanswould have precipitated theinselves, theillimitable expanse, the comparativelyunoccupied condition of all the Europeancontinent, we must conclude that nomere migratory disposition would havecarried the moving tribes into the Westuntil they were pressed by causes otherthan the original impulse. These causes were secondary. Some-times the character of the country pre-vented progress, sometimes •^ ^ . Hardiness and it encouraged it. The pro- fecundity of the ,.„ 1.^ 1 1 .^ Slavonic race. lific or unprolific habitsconduced to the rapid or feeble expan-sion of a given tribe and the consequentnecessity of continuing the march. Thegreat country which we call Russia was
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GREAT RUSSIAN TYPES.—Prawn by Gagniet.I, Woman of Novgorod ; 2, girl of Novgorod ; -,, girl of Pskov ; 4, woman of Pskov ; 5, old man of Novgorod ; 6, young man of Novgorod ; 7, 8, girls of Pskov;q, woman of Tver; 10, woman of Torzhok ; 11, woman of Kaluga; 12, 13, citizens of Moscow ; 14, is, women of Smolensk ; i6, woman of Trogobouge ; 17, girl of Dro-gobouge ; i8, girl of Viazma ; 19, woman of Orel ; 20, girl of Orel; 21, boy of Orel ; 22, woman of Riazan ; 23, girl of Riazan ; 24, girl of Saratov ; 25, woman of Saratov;26, man of Kolomna ; 27, woman of Kolomna; 28. girl of Kursk ; 29, woman of Kursk ; 30, girl ofLgov ; 31, man of Kursk ; 32, 33, 34, boy. woman, and girl of Saratov:35, girl of Tula ; 36, 37, women 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 ethn

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