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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?*: OLD AZTEC TYPF.—MAN. or cross-eyed to give a notion to the ob-server of the appearance of such char-acters. The beauty of the women hasalso been remarked upon since the dis-covery of the country. It is agreed thatthe attractive features of the maidens ofthis race are heightened in effect by nat-ural modesty and sweetness of manners.Clavigero continues: Their sensesare very acute, especially that of sight,which they enjoy unimpaired to thegreatest age. Their minds are at bot-tom in every respect like those of theother children of Adam, and endowedwith the same powers; nor did the Eu-ropeans ever do less credit to their own 538 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. reason than when they doubted the ra-tionality of the Americans. Many per-sons allow the Mexicans to possess agreat talent of imitation, but deny themthe praise of invention—a vulgar error
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WOMAN OK TIERRA CALIENTE—TYPE. which is contradicted by the ancient his-tory of that people. As we have already remarked, theAztecs, on the way to Anahnac, and on their arrival there, found the great raceof the Toltecs. It is con- Successive race ceded that the latter were conquests of the predecessors of the people whom Cortez and his successorsconquered. The native traditionspoint clearly to this belief. Thereare good grounds for thinking thatthe Toltecs made their migrationfrom their ancient country, calledHuehuetlapallan, into Anahuacabout the middle of the sixth cen-tury of our era. This may be re-garded as the beginning of Mex-ican tradition. Some authors thinkthat about a century was occupiedin the migration, and fix the middleor the after part of the seventh cen-tury as the date of the arrival ofthe Toltecs in Mexico. It would appear that this peoplewas the most civilized and progres-sive of all the early Primacy of theAmerican races. We Toltecs in Amer-1 ican civilization.

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