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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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opleas a whole, is fertile, and the agricultural became essentially agricultural. Polanddisposition, for which the Poles have been j was one of the first marts for the exporta-remarked since the beginning of their i tion of grain in modern Europe. THE SLAVS.—POLES. 171 The vicissitudes through which Polishsociety has passed have greatly affectedManner of life the industries of the peo- affected by po- i ^^ ^;^g-j, j-ne^ns of SUb- litical vicissi- i: tu^ie- sistence. The country has shared the general movement which hasprevailed throughout Europe, tending toenlarofe manufacturing interests to the in-jury of the agricultural life. The owner- preceded by an older population of somelong-head division of mankind; but thePolish Slavs came in and took possession.They expanded and became the dominantpeople within the limits of the presentterritory of the Vistula, as Russian Po-land is designated. Beyond these lim-its the pure Polish type is mixed on thenortheast with the Lithuanians and Li-
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WEST SLAV JKW MERCHANTS—TYPES.—Drawn l,y V ship of land has not been easy, and theinstitution of serfdom, which prevaileduntil the first decade of our century, alsohindered the highest agricultural devel-opment of the country. The original Polish race, presentingthe stock in its purity, settled in the pre-historic age in the centralvalley of the Vistula. It isin evidence that the an-cestors of the modern Poles were here Primitive stockof the Vistula;mixture ofraces. vonians ; on the southeast with the LittleRussians, and all along the western bor-ders with the Germans. It is in thecentral territories of the basin of theVistula and the province of Posen thatthe race may now be seen to the best ad-vantage. The territory of which we have herespoken as the central seat of the Poles isone of those ethnic whorls which we find i ncertain parts of the earth around Avhich 172 GREAT RACES OE .IL-^IXKLYD. the race-elements circle and rush in asopportunity olf ers. There is, perhaps, noPoland

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