Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
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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thatterrible and soulless scourge. From thatperiod forth to near the close of theeighteenth century the people Avere re-duced to the religious sAvaA of Rome.This signified that the Czechs had vield-ed their national instincts to foreignpressure. The race spirit, hoAvever, has THE SLA VS.~CZECHS. 191 continued to assert itself to the pres-ent time. The Czechs, like the Poles, strongly sympathized with the French Revolution, and as late as the middle of our century they have shown unmistak- Democratic sympathies of able dispositions to join the people. , •, ^ r -r> the movements tor a Pan-slavic empire. So strong- is the old tion f(jr the first rank among all the peo-ples of vSlavic descent, but they gradehigh in the list. There is Aptitudes ofmuch intellectuality. Few the Czechs;r . 1 j: T? their social life, o± the races of Eunjpehave so striking a development in theart of music. Many of the most dis-tinguished musicians of our age are Bo-hemians, generally of Czech extraction.
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GREAT SQUARE IN PRAGUE. Slavic sentiment that the Austrian g-ov-ernment has to keep guard over the po-litical tendencies in Bohemia, where thedisposition of the most numerous race totake a course of its own is almost asstrong as that of the Hungarian Mag-yars. The Bohemian Czechs are a people offine qualities. They preserve in a highmeasure the best characteristics of theSlavic race. They can not, perhaps, becompared with the Poles in the competi- The same forwardness inay be observedin art and, to a degree, in literature. Thepeople are of a cheerful, or, rather, gaydisposition. Their social life rivals forits freedom that of the Germans. Totheir credit it may be said that, as a rule,the mercenary spirit does not rest uponthem so heavily as on nearly all the peo-ples of Western Europe and America.The enjoyment of life seems to be aprevailing motive; happiness is stillone of the conscious purposes of this 192 GREAT RACES OE MAXKLYJ). distinguished and promising race ofmen. We have ah-e

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