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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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n theirfetiches. The little rude Pitiable depend- images which they carry ence of Bushmen .., ... ,. . ,, t on their fetiches. with them are the be-all andthe end-all of their faith respecting thespiritual powers. In many cases thefetich is no more than a charm or an amu- IFRICA N NIGRITLIXS. —FE TICHISM. 687 let. Thus far, however, the faith of thepeople is no more than the intense andbarbaric expression of the same senti-ment which to the present day exists in,or at least still shadows, the mind ofnearly all the peoples of the world. Theweaker parts of every race and nation arestill touched with the superstition of theamulet and the charm. Of this super- ncver formed any conception of supernalpowers above themselves — that theyhave no idea of forces controlling natureand directing- life, and consequently formno conceptions of duty or of even thenecessity of any religion. This is, perhaps, not true. If wemistake not, all of the Nigritians havesome form of religion, some notion of
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PROMENADE OF THE DHU.—Drawn by Riuu, after a sketch of Binger. stition the Bushman is the culminatingexample of the world. It has been claimed by many travelersand observers that some of the peoplesOpinion that of the interior of SouthernAfrica have no religion atall. It has been said, bywhat would appear to be competent au-thority, that tribes here and there have some Africanshave no reli-gion. spirits, some fears regarding their in-fluence over the affairs of life. The notions which SUch peoples Rudeness of Ni- entertain, however, are ££££££-merely rudimentary, and fetiches.do not include any of the truer elementsof even an enlarged superstition. Thereligious customs of the savage tribesshow a childish stage of development at GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. which the inquirer may well be aston-ished. The aborigines address theirfetiches with less regard and venerationthan the children of the better classes ofbarbarians would show in addressingtheir parents, Negroes have been seento

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