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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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of children. the barbarian m a r r 1 a g elaws. Here again the arrangement ofthe sexual union looks to diversity ratherthan to the inbreeding of the castes.It is evolution and not involution. Thechildren of a cross-caste marriage arenever of the same caste with either ofthe parents! The law of descent may,in its results, be tabulated as follows: 1. When an Ippai takes in marriagean Ippata the children born are eitherKumbo or Buta; that is, Kumbo, ifmale, and Buta, if female. I ( \S TRA LIANS.—DOMES TIC LIFE. 715 2. If an Ippai marry a Kapota (as hemay do), the children are, if male,Murri, and if female, Mata. 3. If a Murri marry a Buta (as hemust do), the male children are Ippai,and the female, Ippata. 4. The children of Kubbi and Ippata marriage and descent ever invented byman! Doubly .strange, therefore, thatit should be the work of , _ Remarkablethe most Utterly Savage character of the people on the face of the globe! How was it devised? What were the instincts (for we can hardly
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UNDER A RAIN HUT FOR SHELTER.—Drawn by Tofani, from a description. are Kumbo and Buta, as they are maleor female. 5. The children of Kumbo and Mataare, if male, Kuppi, and if female, Ka-pota. The g-eneral law is that the caste of o the children is removed as far as prac-ticable from that of the parents, particu-larly that of the father. It were not far from correct to regardthis as the most remarkable svstem of speak of reason in such a case) that ledto the formation of such a custom, andfixed it as the law of the race ? It may be noted that this system ofmarriage and caste bears strongly theimpress of a desire for Method of cross-crossbreeding and constant ^Sdifferentiation. There is solidarity,in the system, however, a manifest ten-dency to preserve tribal solidarity. Weshould remember that caste exists within 716 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the tribe. The result, therefore, of thepeculiar method of sexual unit)* is to dis-tribute the blood of the tribe, as if thetribe were an entity

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