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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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s an essential inheroic endeavor. It requires rather acertain steady force, such as is gener-ated from the carbohydrate elements.All agricultural countries fall to the useof grains and vegetables, and to a cer-tain extent abandon animal food. Inproportion as the country lies well to thesouth, the relinquishment of the hydro-carbons will be more complete, and foodwill be almost exclusively drawn fromthe field, the orchard, and the garden. These carbohydrates are the producersof force. The starch foods taken intothe human constitution Effects of suchpass by metamorphosis in- Z^::^^^fto sugar and from sugar *°^-into oil. In the last named form theyare consumed. He who demands simpleworking energy without regard to thewaste of his muscular tissue will turninstinctively to the cereals and fruits.Ultimately this tendency lands on riceand potatoes. In countries where naturebrings forth abundantly of the cereals,where all ground crops are plentiful andfruits abundant, there will be an incvi-
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712 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. table shrinkage of the muscular parts ofall animals. Man subsisting on such afood will become assiduous in his ap-plication, even persistent in his pursuits.He may be lithe and active, supple-jointed and quick in movement, but hewill be essentially weak in his skeletonand muscular structure. Here we have the fundamental condi-tions which have divided the Aryan raceThe Hindu body in India from the Iraniansthe result of the ^ from the great races long discipline ° of nature. of the Wcst. The Hindu body is the result of a long discipline in

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