Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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of their superstitions,and mark out the divergence of theirthought from that of the Brown andRuddy races. Turning from the subjective differ-ences of mind and thought among theraces of antiquity to their Difference ofobjective aetivities, we find a Te^^rToT^corresponding divergence adventure,and distinction of character. The di-versity of men of different races in theirmodes and purposes of action is amongthe most striking features by whichthey are discriminated. In what maybe called the spirit of adveiiture, for in-stance, the various races have had eachits own distinctive character and method.Some have taken to the water, chosenthe maritime life, sailed afar to distantcoasts and islands, and made the sea afamiliar spirit. To others, the oceanhas been a terror, while the continentalvastnesses have invited to explorationand even to peril. To other branches ofthe human family both sea and land haveappalled and paralyzed the adventurous , 4 ■*»*t. ^*.J^ •^7 ■■•i;;^f?«^.J-ii
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THE BLACKS FEAR NATURE.—Storm in African Forest—Drawn by Rlou. 566 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. energies. Such peoples have shrankback from the enticements of explora-tion and the wild liberty which it af-fords. They have settled into the safestand most convenient nooks, and shieldedthemselves from the opposing forces ofnature by what barriers soever theycould discover in a given environment. In these respects, we find again thatthe Ruddy races have been superior toThe Ruddy the Correlated branches ofLThrrS- the human family. It canous disposition, not be said that their ad-venture has carried them as far as in thecase of the nomadic peoples of Asia—those great Turanians of the Brown racewho have drifted through all parts of thegreatest of the continents. But the ac-tivities of the Aryans have been char-acterized by greater energy and morerational method. Their migrations havebeen directed by a purpose, at least ahalf-formed purpose, to seek for betterthings and gain the mastery. The

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