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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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sand still less ethnic Decline of theimportance. The westernsiavs r under political history of races is pressure.everywhere more or less involvedwith the history of nations. Thisis particularly true of the WesternvSlavs. Their race importance de-clines under the pressure of his-torical conditions. The Slavicstock rests upon Turkey and Ger-many. On account of race affini-ties the pressure is not much feltor resisted on the German side.The ethnic dispositions of thevSlavic and Teutonic peoples havebeen such as to permit the inter-penetration the one of the other,and this is the general aspect whichthey present along the borders atthe present time. Out of these conditions many im-portant considerations arise, someof which relate to historical and others toethnical possibilities. Thus, russ autocracyfor example, in the case of ^^rrSnim-the possible liberalization of periaiism.the Russian government to the extent thatthe patriotism of the Pole and the Russmight make common cause, we should
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TUKCO-BUSNIAN MUSICIANS—TYPES ANJ) COSTUMES.—Drawn by Valeno, from nature. 198 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. find a strong- efflux of Slavonism west-Avard into Germany. It may well besaid that the Russian autocracy is oneof the safeguards of German imperial-ism. The Slavic pressure in the direc-tion of Turkey is prodigious. Nothingbut the tremendous underheft of allWestern Europe has been able to sup-port the Ottoman power against theotherwise intolerable aggression of theSlavic race. On the Turkish side there is not onlypressure, but antagonism. The antag-Turkshard onisiTL is whettcd sliarp by pressed by the gt^ng diversity of race Slavs; a danger- fc> -^ ous border. and dcep-scated religious antipathies. We thus find small vSlavicinterpenetration along the Turkishfrontier. The pressure expresses itselfbv conquest. A free border on thisside means conquest. On the side ofGermany it means no more than a cer-tain efflux of race conditions. Historically considered, the ethnicborder whic

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