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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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BOSNIAN CHRISTIAN PEASANT.Drawn by Valerio, from nature. tual, industrial, and social characteris-tics. On the whole, Croatians have notkept pace with the Czechs, the Poles,and the Serbs in the direction of a largeand progressive ethnic life. They have,nevertheless, preserved their language,their Slavonic traditions, and a measureof national spirit. The latter has ex-pressed itself in literary forms, particu-larly in the poetry of Stanko Vraz andRadichevich, belonging to the present 196 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. century. For the rest, the influence ofGermany has prevailed over the nativeinstincts, and little literature has beenproduced that is worthy of preservation.As we have already said, the distribu-tion of vSlavic peoples in the directionswhich we have followed in The impenetra- tion of Germany the prcscut and preceding by the Slavs. . ^ ^ ., . , chapters extends withrather indefinite demarkation on the side
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WESIERN SLAV TYPE OF MONTENEGRO.Drawn by \alerio, from nature. of Germany. The Slavs have in manyplaces made their way into what are nowregarded as Teutonic borders, and havethere fixed themselves in permanentresidence. This statement holds goodof the eastern border of the Germanempire and of the whole circuit of Aus- tria-Hungary. Roumania, though in-habited by the Aryan Wallachians, has,nevertheless, a considerable percentageof Slavonic population. This is true ofBulgaria and of vServia, as we have justseen. It is also true of Montenegro andBosnia, The line of the Upper Adriaticmay, in general, be said to mark thewestern limits of this great dispersion.How far this point is thrown westwardthrough Central Europe may be~)^% noted with interest by a glance atthe map. AVe have thus with some brevitycompleted the circuit of the West-ern Slavs. These peoples, afterwe pass the Poles, become of lessand still less ethnic Decline of theimportance. The westernsiavs r under political history of

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