Ridpaths History Of The World Vol 3

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330404782
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. 3 of 4 written by John Clark Ridpath and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. 3 of 4: Being an Account of the Ethnic Origin, Primitive Estate, Early Migrations, Social Conditions and Present Promise of the Principal Families of Men With an account of the Norse and Slavic races I now complete, in the first part of the current volume, the discussion of the Teutonic peoples. Such has been the importance of the race that it has long occupied our attention, but not longer than the interest of the subject has seemed to demand. Teutonism in one form or other tends to predominance in modern history. We may not clearly discover whether or not the Germanic element in the civilization of the present century is destined to rise to such supremacy as to overshadow the rest; but there are indications pointing to such a conclusion of affairs. True, it is not the Teutonic part pure and simple that leads the existing races of mankind; for that part is not sufficiently aggressive to take the world for its inheritance. But the modified Teutonism of the English races seems to portend the supremacy of the same in the twentieth century. The general view of the Norse races reveals an aspect somewhat different from that presented by the same stock a thousand years ago. At that time the peoples of the Baltic and the North sea gave token of a purpose to possess themselves of the better parts of Europe. The Norman element spread in this direction and in that, incorporating with itself the other elements of race-life in the West, and taking on new forms of development. It can hardly be said that within the last three centuries the Scandinavian races are less powerful and fecund than they were in the earlier Middle Ages; but they have become less aggressive, and have diffused themselves abroad with a mild force little analogous to the vehemence of the Old Norse. Quite unlike this order of development is that of The Slavs. These races have issued with violence and threatening demeanor upon the Eastern frontiers of Europe. They have multiplied and organized and civilized to the extent of changing the whole constitution of European ethnography and history. The growth of the Russian race has been, within the current century, something phenomenal. I have attempted in this volume to delineate the leading features in the ethnic life of the Slavs, and to point out with some fullness those qualities upon which the power and promise of the race depend. We shall find the Slavs to be widely diffused throughout Northeastern Europe, and to have an ethnic overlap of no small extent in the countries defined as Teutonic. There is a manifest tendency of the Slavs to spread abroad into foreign countries. America, within the current period, has received and is still receiving from this source a considerable element of her foreign populations. With the discussion of the Slavic race we conclude the Aryan or Indo-European division of mankind. This division, however, is not conterminous with the Ruddy races. The latter extend to the inclusion of both the Semitic and the Hamitic divisions of the race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.