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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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s no longer violent, but the flux of the Slavonic nations toward Constantinople and the West is as manifest to the eye of the historian and ethnographer as it was five centuries ago. The reader must be on his guard against confounding European Russia with Asiatic; that is, against mistaking the vSlavonic countries for Place and dis- those belonging to the tribution of the T~. - , . . Russian Slavs. Brown races oi mankind. The vSlavs, if we look at them with respect to the Russian empire, are fixed rather in its western part. We may not suppose that any branch of the race after the migratory era ever turned back from the hither bank of the Volga. The Asiatic Russians belong to the vast and varied families whose ethnography is difficult and uncertain, but the Slavic races of European Russia are better understood both as to their derivation and distribution. As already said, Russia has no hold on the ocean. Even the feeble possessions which she had at sea in the last century she has given up. The islands
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130 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the race to maritime possessions. which she still holds are littoral, and are regarded as outlying parts of the mainland. It is a whole lesson in history to Indifference of note the Sale, cession, and gift of group after group of her insular possessions within the present century. The sale of Alaska and the Aleutian archipelago to the United States, in 1867, is the most conspicuous example of the disposition of the empire to part with her water lands, reserving only continental parts for her imperial growth. We are now to consider the European Russians and the cognate Slavonian tribes. The latter include the Poles and the other minor divi- Enumeration of . the Pan-Slavic sions of the vSlavic race. populations. -o 4. ii, i. i • j. But the great predominant body is Russian. Of the more than sixty-nine million of people in European Russia—that is, vSlavic European Russia—more than sixty-three million are Russians proper. About one million and twenty thousand are Po

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