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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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722 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. that symmetry which distinguishes theform in the higher races. The Austra-lians are habitually lank and cadaverous.Their ribs protrude. The abdominal age. If the Australians laugh, the facthas been rarely noticed. The hair ofthe head is, as we have
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Features andhair; capacityfor physicalexertion. A DEMONIAC DANCE.Drawn by Van Muyden, from a description. parts project in an animal-like manner.The legs are slender, and are frequentlyskeleton-like in appearance. As to the face, that is sedate and sav- said, abundant and curly,though not woollyin character—at least, it is notAfrican wool, but rather a specificvariety of hair. The men canendure considerable fatigue if itresult from mere action and notfrom laborious strain. For laborthey have little capacity. On thewhole, the bodily strength isgreater than would be estimatedfrom a glance at the unsymmet-rical and unmuscular form. Indolence supplements the non-laboring disposition ; nor can thehope of reward stim- indolence aulate the people to an ^^f^™3 assiduous a p plica- courage. tion of their powers. They arecapable, however, of anger, andare much given to quarreling, andeven fighting. Most of them,though they would be consideredbrave, have the animal charac-teristic of making

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:Cincinnati___Jones
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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