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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NG THE ALP HORN. the Swiss against the Austrians, we shallfind, perhaps, that they are significance ofan expression of old tribal S^/^JrusIantipathies, going back tna.to the times when the inhabitants ofUri, Unterwalden, and Schwytz wereCeltic. As the traveler to-day passes 98 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. over the country from the higher moun-tain regions down toward Baden intothe land of farmers and peasants, fromthe land of chamois hunters and goatherds, he will be surprised at the ethnicchange which passes over the landscape.It is evident that the people of thelower country toward Baden are Ger-manic, those on the French border from in a former part about the establishmentof great despotisms on the plains of theEast, and to n(,)te the strong contrast af-forded by the solidified peoples of theplain and the races of the mountains. Itis doubtless this very circumstance ofopen plain on the one hand and inacces-sible heights on the other that has led,or at least contributed, to the buildinp;
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BAUSCHANZLI AND LAKE ZURICH. Neufchatel to Basel are French, whilethe mountaineer Swiss have a race char-acter of their own, which has been dif-ferentiated in the last ten centuries froma Celtic basis. It is probable that the indisposition ofmountain peoples to submit themselvesto absolutism and other fixed conditionsRelation of free- which they must first ac- dom and abso- . i ^i i^ • ;.v^(^^. lutism to monn- <-t^pi-aiiU UiCii ueai, iJ. Liacc tain and plain. ^^Aq primarily to physicalcauses. We have had occasion to speak of despotic governments under one en-vironment and of republican libertiesunder the other. vSwitzerland is the re-public of Europe. The Alpine hornwas wound not only for the Swiss them-selves, but for all the democrats and re-publicans of modern times. vSomething of this is found in the sur-Aival of old tribal liberties in countriessituated as is Switzerland, but much moreof it may be discovered in the fitness ofthino-s. In the lowlands vast masses of THE SWISS.

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