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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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rovidence,those articles were produced. As to ag-riculture, that was altogether the workand duty of the squaw. The squawslife was toilsome and full of hardship.The improvidence of the aborigines wasproverbial. They rarely provided any-thing for special exigencies. The ap-proach of winter demanded a supply ofprovisions, but the supply was rarelylarger than the supposed necessities ofthe season. Famine was ever in sight. The hardexperiences of starvation and diseasecould not drive the tribesmen to providein any large sense for thefuture. amassed property. They propeidid not care to do so. To the presenttime, and in their most civilized estate,it is rarely the case that the Indians feelthe ambition of acquiring estates andwealth. Their theory of land occupationrather than land ownership tended tointensify their improvidence. Even thesense of personal property was not dis-tinct or definite among them. In a gen-eral way each man owned his personal Weakness of The Indians never the sense of
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474 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. possessions ; but these were merely .suffi-cient for his present wants and contin-gencies. Beyond that his desire forproperty did not extend. The inaptitude of Indian men for la-bor was intensified and fixed in a he-Effect of the reditary trait by the prev-huntinghabit; alence ()f tiie hunting life. sparsity of ° population. The area occupied by our aborigines was erenerally wide, unlimited. Isolation of In-dian existence.

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  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:Cincinnati___Jones
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