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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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essentially historical.The man-life thus begins to be delineated.Of a certainty everything is at the firstlocal and peculiar. The myth-makingpower is busy in the production of thenarrative. Fact and fiction are equallypresent in the concept and the work.The historian of the dawn is at once asage and a bard, an annalist and a rhap-sodist. a story-teller and a singer. What 50 GREAT RACES OE MAX KIND. he produces blends henceforth with thememory of his race. It is imbibed as averity, and is used by future chroniclersand poets as the subject-matter of theirwork. The volume of tradition expandsrapidly, and is to a certain extent rec-tified by the improving judgment andcritical skill of after times. But ages go history of mankind continues to flow inthe mighty stream of history and tocolor all its waters. But what is the difference betweenhistory and tradition? Is not the onethe other, and the other that? Is itpossible to discriminate with exactitudebetween that form of intellectual product
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A CHALDEK RHAPSODIST RECITING (MODERN).—Drawn by Barbant. by ere the elements of myth and tradi-tion are eliminated from the narrative.Mankind advance to the possessionand civilization of the great conti-nents. Other branches of knowledgespring from the mental fecundity of therace. Nations react upon nations. Avast civil and political life appears. Themind improves by culture and discipline;and yet the fictitious part of the early be drawn be-tween traditionj^g and history. which goes by the name of tradition andthat other form which is called history ?May these two parts of the Distinctions tointellectual work of ourrace — its history andtradition—be separated the one from theother and be considered apart? Cer-tainly the two facts to which these termsrefer are not the same fact; and yet theblending of the one with the other is so TIME OF THE BEGINNING.SOURCES OF INFORMATION 51 intimate and universal as almost to pre-clude the division of the one from theother. Tradition is a ge

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