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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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, and rep-resent to the modern inquirer a tolera-bly authentic transcript of antiquity. Itis quite likely that many features of thecostume of the modern Persians, suchas the old tiara, or high cap, which wasworn by the subjects of Cyrus the Great,are more faithfully preserved in the cur-rent styles than is the Persian character 620 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. and person upon which they are exhib-ited. The cruelty and tyrannical disposition of the Medo-Persians in the times of the greatness of the race has Cruelty and fierceness of the already been referred to. Persic stock. g^ ^ ^ ^^ hag suffered a terrible degeneration, andis more repulsive in the coarseness, to the trying- exigencies through whichthe Iranian peoples have passed. TheMohammedan conquest was of itself asufficient shock to destroy nationality;and the substitution of Islam for the OldIranian faith aggravated the calamity. The modern Persians may be rankedamong the principal races of Asia. InWestern Asia they compete with the
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^JX><?. USBEK. AND TAJIK. TYPES.-Drawn by A. Ferdinandus. treachery, and immorality of the mod-ern Persian character than in its ancientaspect of fierce brutality. The race isavaricious and untruthful. There islittle intellectual development; and ifcorruption of heart and life were theonly term definitive of savagery, thewhole race might well be dismissed assavages. Much of this degradation,however, must undoubtedly be attributed Turks and Russians for the first place inethnic importance. The race, however,lacks homogeneity. It is „ ° J Race character more mixed than either of the modemthe Turkish or the Russianstock. In Central Persia the ancient raceof Iranians is represented in tolerablepurity in the descendent people. Butall around the borders this is not true.On the west, and particularly the south- THE IK. IA~L I XS.—E THNIC DIIVSIONS. 621 west, there is a strong admixture ofTurkish blood. On the north andnortheast the Mongol stock of man-kind has made itself felt and

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