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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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scratch out, anddevour without preparation. Afterthese they catch and eat all man-ner of insects, except the poisonous, 676 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. many of them loathsome to the senses.They pursue and take lizards and snakesand reptiles of all kinds belonging-to thecountry, locusts, and every living thinethat may be swallowed and digested.The tribal manner is merely animal.The companies of Bushmen pass fromplace to place, exhausting the poor re-sources of nature wherever they pause. Meanwhile the disposition and char-acter of the natives have sunk to the a symptom. It is almost impossible tomake a mental impression upon them.They are indolent in bod- weakness ofily habits to a degree un- intellect; Bush- J t> men slavery un- equaled by any other species profitable.of mankind. They know but one motiveof action—hunger. They are not ableto count beyond two. After that limitof numerical excursion they call every-thing many. In their speech theyform the plural by simply repeating the
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CAMP OF BUSHMEN. lowest type that may, with any fitness, beLow type of described as human. They disposition; „ „ i r • , failure of are cross and ferocious, not memory. wanting in a certain kind of c< mrage and vindictiveness, suspicious,and revengeful. Perhaps the weaknessof their intellect and the feeble retentive -ness of memory prevent them from lav-ing up against those who have oppressedthem and destroyed their race character,those resentments and causes of resent-ment which lead to life-long hatredand revenge in other barbaric races.Of intellect the Bushmen have scarcely singular. Of attainments they havenone. They scarcely remember fromweek to week, and seem to be under thedominion of merely animal instincts. In a few particulars they reveal humanqualities. It is claimed that in servitudethey respond to good treatment and be-come faithful and affectionate slaves. vSoweak is their enterprise, however, thatit has not been regarded as profitable toreduce them to slavery.

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