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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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e and character,they may all be defined as mere hovelsof mud and rushes. The settlementshave some permanence, however, andthe tribes are by no means so nomadicin their habits as would be expected inthe case of northern barbarians. Ofmanners and custom there is little to benoted in the way of civilizing tendencies.Many of the grosser forms of primitivesavagery prevail unabated. One of theworst of these is the taking of life formere convenience. The two classes ofthe newly born and the aged are speciallyexposed to the danger of destruction.The killing of infants from caprice andconvenience is common everv where.The prepossessing children are kept bytheir parents. The less fortunate aredestroyed with impunity. The peopleseem to have no compunction as to thiskind of murder. Even half-grown youthsare many times destroyed, with a viewto reducing the family or for other rea-sons. It is the aged, however, who moreespecially suffer. If one of the tribe hasthe misfortune to reach advanced vears
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W3 l. 680 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. he is taken from the kraal, or village, toa remote situation and exposed to die.He may even be a man of prominenceand wealth, but this does not protecthim from the common fate which bar-barous custom has prescribed. Old per-sons thus carried away into exposuresometimes die of starvation, but are fre-quently destroyed by wild beasts whichattack and devour them. Individual instances are authenticated I have come under foreign instruction haverelapsed at the first opportunity, return-ing not only to their own kind, but tothe barbarous customs which they hadformerly given up. Pritchard has transmitted the story ofa Hottentot boy, educated under theauspices of the governor, Pritchards ac-ATan der Stel, and brought fount of the re- * lapse of a Cape to a considerable staofe of Town boy.proficiency in knowledge. He remained

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