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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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mote offspring of the parents of therace. In the tenth chapter there is anaccount of tribal and ethnic dispersionssufficiently ample to explain the presenceof the primitive peoples in the western-most parts of Asia, Southeastern Africa,and Eastern Europe. With this summary,however, the subject of ethnography isdropped from the Scriptures, thoughcertain important lines of descent wererecorded until long after the destructionof the Israelitish nation. The account of the origin of thingsgiven in the first chapter of Genesis is a part Of a lore which was Account of cre-nel o ~~:4-:„ ation in Genesis common to all the bemitic common t0 anpeoples of antiquity. All of the Semites,these held traditions in which the criticalreader is able to discover at least theoutlines of a common belief with regardto the modus operandi of creation. Oneof the particulars which always reap-pears in these accounts of the beginningis that flood, or great deep, or primevalchaos upon which the wind or breath of
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THE EDEN OF POETRY.—Miltons Vision of the First Pair and Raphael.—Drawn by Gustave Dore. MANNER OF THE BEGINNING.—FIAT AND EVOLUTION 193 the Elohim is said to have blown as thefirst movement of order. This notion is strongly imbedded inthe cosmogony of the Chaldees, thoughvariations m with them the primevalflood is spoken of as femi-niuc, instead of the mascu-line form used in Genesis. The universalchaos is, in the oldest Babylonian ac-counts, regarded as containing the crea- tine Chaldeestory of the be-ginning. the primeval flood, but as apart there-from, and brooding over it, and sendingthereon the primal winds of order. In other respects the ancient Semiticaccounts of the creation preserved in the fragments of BerOSUS, and General agree- better still in those inscrip- JS££2££°tions and tablets which the tion-learned George Smith has interpretedto the understanding of our age, corre-

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