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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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elowthe mere formalities of speech into thespirit and thought which are expressedin the language we shall find the like-ness still further wrought into the tex-ture of the respective national histories.He who is familiar with the evolution ofAmerican literature must have observedwith what pain, with what a sluggishpace, with what labor the provincial as-pect of both the American language andthe literature of our continent have been 54 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. loosened from the types and forms ofthe mother country; how the Americanbrain has been compelled, by the exac-tions of custom, to think the samethoughts, to follow the same intellectualpursuits, to turn into the same manner-isms, and in everv respect to imitate the Historical facts also lead us to the con-clusion that the Norwegian is a young-er form of Danish life. Norwegian life The Danes found their alfopi^oTeed most natural vent west- from the Danes. ward, along the southern shores of theNorth sea and across the Entjlish chan-
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THE VIKINGS AHROAD. form and feature and ideal traits of themother tongue and the home literatureof the race. So also in Norway. Thespeech and intellectual life of the peo-ple were deduced from a Danish origi-nal ; and the breaking away of the na-tional thought and aspiration in Norwayfrom the ancestral form has been ac-complished with the same difficulty asin America. nel. Hence the Danes in Northumbriaand East Anglia as conquerors. But theNorsemen proper, they who took to seafrom the western coasts of Norway,would drift directly to the Shetlandislands and to the Orkne3\s, and thencealong the shores of vScotland. Geog-raphy will also explain how the Nor-mans would fall by a natural course intoNeustria, and how thev would in the THE NORSE.—NORWEGIANS. 55 lapse of a century or two become en-tangled in political and historical alli-ances with the English people. Thewhole process may be thus viewedfrom a higher hill. The course of man-kind in its general development, as dis-tinguished

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