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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not been overcoine, and thevSlavic race, third in strength among thegreat peoples west of the Urals andAltais, has not been able to obtain its THE SLA rs.—CIVIL INSTiruriONS. 159 proportional part of the world.s com-merce. In these facts we may see once moreillustrated the truth that every nation isdetermined and limited in its activitiesby the conditions of its physical environ-Russiades- mcut. Great Britain and ^^^/tr..T^ Holland were preordained to an internal t^ life- by nature to be the seats of a world-wide commerce. Russia was the rise of the Czars of Muscovy to theirpresent broad j^olitical dominion. TheRussian Qfovernment, now _, *^ The au-tocracy covering all but the out- a natural resultr ,-, ^\^ ■ ■ of Conditions. posts of the Slavic races, isby far the greatest autocracy in the world.From one point of view it seems to bethe greatest anachroni.sm. This, how-ever, like all other aspects of the aggre-gated life of man, is but a natural evolu- •I111111 i; jiji I IIi;
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MINERS OF KATAR—TYPES.—Drawn by Thiriat, from a photograph. in like manner predestined to an inter-nal life. Possibly she may yet by wayof the Mediterranean reach the broadwarm waters of the inviting ocean; butfor the present age at lea^t the Slavicpeoples must content themselves withproduction and internal trade. It belongs to general history to trace tion from preexisting conditions. It ishardly within the range of rational state-ment for the historian or ethnographerto speak of unnatural circumstances inthe development of the social and politi-cal life of man. The Russian government preserves inEurope that personal and autocratic 160 GREAT RACES OF JJAXKLXP. aspect which belonged of old to all forms of government Avhatsoever. It shows forth the czar as an ab- Philosophy of the czars place solute monarch, imperson-mcivi socie y. ^^;j^g. ^;-^g state and ruling bv his own right. He represents theadministrati(.)n of auth()rity over all theRussians. In him are united the con- theore

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