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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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on is in Tasmania,in 420 S. The next general observation relativeto the emplacement of the Black race isthe comparative unimpor- comparative un-tance of the countries oc- j^Se?cupied thereby. Of these of the Blacks,the greatest potency is doubtlessly inEquatorial Africa. That part of theworld, however, has thus far remainedunreclaimed by civilization, althoughNorthern and Northeastern Africa havebeen the seats of some of the oldest,most famous, and most important, aswell as the most highly civilized, nationsof the ancient world. After Africa, Australia is by far themost important of the countries havingan original population of Blacks. Whileit would not be proper to depreciateAustralia as a seat of civilization, itmust nevertheless be admitted that alarge part of that island-continent is un-reclaimable, and that the whole of it isso greatly divided by broad oceans fromthe continental parts of the world as toplace the country at a great disadvan-tage in the competition for preeminence.
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610 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. As to New Guinea, the island is neitherlarge enough nor well enough emplacedto give it a great importance in the gen-eral survev of the earths habitable parts.It will thus be .seen that, on the whole,the geographical areas held originally,and in most part to the present time, bythe Black races are the least consequen-tial of the countries of the earth. Our next general observation relates to the race itself, and its comparative rank in the general cate- Inferior rank of the Black divi- gory of mankind. 1 he sion of mankind. -,-,A -, ..... r , Black division of humankind holds by far the lowest level of anyof our species. Its emergence from thetotal obscurity of unrecorded paganismand merely animal stages of progresshas been so slight as scarcely to mark astage in the forward march. Beyondthis the other races have gone forth onvast excursions to enlightenment andpower. They have passed the bordersof the physical and material, and haveentered the intellectual

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