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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f the awakening of histribal consciousness he was on the alertto note, and even to record, the move-ments and caprices of physical nature.He was quick to discover the identitiesand antagonisms of natural facts, andthus were laid the foundations of thoseclassifications which, in the riper ages ofthe world, have become science. In this respect the Aryans have beenstrongly discriminated from the peoples of Brown descent, and still Natural science more strongly from the -^t::Zl^^,Black races of the tropics. Blacks.It is doubtful if any such thing as nat-ural science has ever suggested itself tothe inquiry of thinkers among the Brownpeoples of mankind. Doubtless thehighest degree of knowledge possessedby any branch of this family is that towhich the Chinese have attained, and it DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.^ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 557 is certain that among them the natural I families of men the Aryan race is al-sciences are either utterly wanting or I most equally distinguished by its scien-
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MOjDIFICATION of environment by application of natural forces.—Hydraulic Mining. else in so crude a condition as to merit ( tific tendency and attainments. Theno attention from the Western nations, disposition of the Semitic peoples, andEven from the Hamitic and Semitic I of the Hamites in their best estate, as 558 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. among the Egyptians, has been, fromthe first, to look at nature as a causedphenomenon, and pass immediately toreflection on the nature and characterof the Cause; while the Aryan mind hashad almost a passion for scrutinizing thephenomena themselves, for determiningthe relations of physical facts, and dis-covering the laws by which they aregoverned. This subjective difference, as willreadily be seen, has led to the scientificThe Aryans have ascendency of the AryaniT/edtetr^- i-aces and to their domina-of phenomena, tion ovcr the earth. Thatis, the Aryan peoples have mastered thelaws of phenomena and subordinated theforces of nature so successfully as

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