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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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uponwhich we are now to enter. The term Semitic, as definitive of this group of peoples, is of Biblical origin. Shem, or vSem, was one of the sons The term. Semit-ic; relations of of Noah, probably Canaan to Shem. ., , r ,i the youngest or thethree who are represented as thefathers of the three great Ruddyraces. It has been suggested bycritics that in the twenty-secondverse of the ninth chapter ofGenesis the words, Ham, thefather of, should be omitted asnot a part of the text, therebymaking Canaan, the fourth andyoungest son of Noah, to havebeen guilty of the offense againsthis father. This suggestion hasfurther merits besides that of makingthe narrative easy and consistent; for itwould seem to imply that the Canaan(with the meaning of Canaanites) are thedescendants of vShem, Ham, aiid)si^hQ\.h.. This would relieve Biblical criticism ofthe necessity of referring the Brownand Black races of mankind to a Noachianorigin. But however this may be, theword Semite has been accepted from the
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CHALDEE WOMAN.Drawn by Kmile Hayard, from a photograph. Hebrew vScriptures as definitive of an im-portant group of Asiatic and African na-tions, some of which have perished in thewrecks of histor)^ while others remain intheir descendants to tiie present time. 202 GREAT RACES OF JLLYAVXR. This group is definable with tolerabledistinctness. It is doubtful, indeed,Easiness of de- whether the Aryan peoplesfining the semit- ^^.^ susceptible of a clearer ic grovip of ^ races. ethnic definition than are the Semites. Of the latter, speaking-g-eographicallv, there are three great di-visions. The first, or Xorthern, is repre-sented in modern times only by certaingroups of Xeo-Syrians, but was in an-tiquity strongly developed in the so-calledAramaic nations. This term Aramaic is likewise of Bib-lical origin. Aram in Hebrew signifiesthe Two Rivers, meaning Meaning ofAram; Hebdivision of Sam Aram; Hebraic ^^^^ region Called by the ites. Greeks Mesopotamia,as dis- tinguished from Syria. It appears,

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