With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men (1915) (14578065997)

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Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : Clark E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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RUINS OF EPHESUS, WITH THE PRISON TOWER.—From a photograph. coins of the precious metals took theirplace. Here for the first time in the historyof the Aryan race we perceive the as-Beginningsof cendency of new forcesin the coming nationallife. It can no longer besaid that the religious evolution is domi-nant over the other elements which wereblending in the. formation of the Lyd-ian cliaracter. They now begin to beM.—Vol. 2—4 secular societyamong the Lydiaiis. problem of existence, ceased to frameexplanations of the mysteries of thenatural and spiritual worlds, but thepeoples of the West hencefoi-th re-manded these considerations to a lessimportant place, and became essentiallypractical in their development. The old Iranians were on the crestbetween the Oriental and the Occidentaltendencies of the human family. Fromthis high ridge of division mankind
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ANCll^NT I.NDIAN TV IE.—(Kcl-srs hki okk Cvhi Tim CREEKS.—I. YDIANS. 51 slope off orientalwards into the valley of ; otherwise calm in her aspects and fertile in her resources. The rivers and lakes, the Indus. Mysticism more and moreLydians the first prevails; supcrstition more of the great industrial peOpies. and more ijredominates;the industrial and prac-tical aspect of life is more and moresubordinated to the dream of the phi-losopher and the rhapsody of the dev-otee. But westward from Iran thetendency is reversed. TheLydians maybe called thefirst great industrial Ar-yan nation. Their countrywas such as to suggest thedevotion of human energyto the creation of value.Very unlike the mountain-ous and sterile regions ofCappadocia were the hill-sides and valleys of Lydia.Here grew the forest offir; here sprang the vine ;and here rich fields ofgrain and saffron rose, al-most imaided, from thebosom of earth. The climate was mildand healthful. The riv-ers gave life to the valleys,and t