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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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in Social law unde- their whole development, veiopedamong x ,. ,, the Africans. It were not tar fromcorrect to say that marriage, as an in-stitution, does not exist among them.They seem to be unconscious of the im-portance, much less of the necessity, ofa regular and well-ordered method ofjoining the sexes for the construction ofthe family and the multiplication of the AFRICAN NIGRITIANS.—SOL IAL INSTITUTE >.\S 639 kind. Little importance is attached bythem to any system of uniformity andconstancy in fixing the marital relations.Out of the nature of the case the Africanfamily exists; but it is no more than anaggregate of products thrown togetherwithout distinctness of purpose or moral- races of mankind have instinctively andreligiously surrounded the beginnings ofthe union of the man and Indifference tothe WOman in domesticity, marriage andat j 1 • .Li r r domestic bonds. Not only is the fact of marriage little celebrated, little observed by others than the parties themselves.
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FAMILY OF CENTRAL AFRICA.—Hunters, Woman, and Children of Ambuela— Drawn by Maillard, from a photograph. ity of outline. Nature in this particularis the governing force. In so far asnature produces a family, to that extentthe African social system has a founda-tion, but no further. Throughout all Nigritia very little at-tention is paid to the fact of marriage.The sexual estate is entered with hardlya show of those formalities, sentiments,and customs wherewith nearlv all the but its maintenance, its perpetuity, is inlike manner held of little account. Inno other race is the fidelity of the manto the woman, or of her to him, so littleregarded as among the Africans. Itseems impossible for them to realize theprofound immorality and shocking con-sequences that must follow upon theunfaithfulness and constant violation ofthe bottom law in their marriages. It 640 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. might almost be said that the African,whether man or woman, goes his ownway as it respects the law of s

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