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True history is the generalized result of all things that have been thought and done by men.

— John Clark Ridpath Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

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It might be said, even at this late day, that the whole intellectual structure of the world rests on the concrete of tradition.

Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

Above all other branches of knowledge, history sits and broods, with wings outspread as though the universe of things were pregnant and must bring forth under the shadow and power of thought.

Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

The line of division is made on the principle that the remains of what man has done shall fall to archaeology, and the remains of what man was to anthropology.

Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

Man is a speaking animal. No other characteristic of his nature is more universal or prevailing. Speech is the invariable index of the intellectual and moral condition of the human kind.

Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

Ethnic history...regards the human being as a maker—a maker of houses first, and of all things afterwards.

Ridpath's History of the World (1897)

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