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The ethnographical map of Europe is as clear in his mind's eye as the boot of Italy, the hand of the Morea, and the shield of the Spanish peninsula in those of a physical geographer.
Maynoff, "Sketches of the Judicial Practices of the Mordovians," in the ethnographical Zapiski of the Russian Geographical Society, 1885, pp. 236, 257. Henry Maine, International Law, London, 1888, pp. 11-13. E. Nys, Les origines du droit international, Bruxelles, 1894.
The historic narrative must be so shaped as to describe them in part singly, but, at the same time, in their mutual relations. Ancient history, from an ethnographical point of view, would embrace two general divisions, Eastern peoples and Western peoples. II. Africa, including Egypt, Carthage. III. Europe including Greece, with its states and colonies; Italy.
Every boundary of the ethnographical, linguistic, political, and commercial map as a little consideration will show has indeed been traced in the first place by the means of transit, under the compulsion of geographical contours.
Stately, externally powerful, although undermined and putrescent at the core, the death-stricken empire still dashed back the assaults of its barbarous enemies. During the long struggle intervening between the age of Vespasian and that of Odoacer, during all the preliminary ethnographical revolutions which preceded the great people's wandering, the Netherlands remained subject provinces.
The other scholar, M. Quatrefages, a man of still greater reputation, devotes himself to a proposition almost as extraordinary namely, that the Prussian pedigree is Finn and Slav, with only a small pinch of Teuton, and hence, in an ethnographical view, is anti-German!
One delegate from a poor and friendless country had to take the maps of a rival state and retouch them in accordance with the ethnographical data, which he considered alone correct. L'Homme Enchatné, December 14, 1914. "With its causes and objects we have no concern." Speech delivered by Mr. Wilson before the League to Enforce Peace in Washington on May 24, 1916.
Ethnographical pictures, national scenes, pictures of military subjects, landscapes, interiors, flower pieces, animals, portraits, icons, allegories, mythical subjects, ruins, architecture all these are fully represented in the art gallery of the National Museum, and have figured in nearly all the art exhibitions.
The Berlin Ethnographical Museum contains many proofs of the facts I have just mentioned. If they happen to break, so much the better; for the fatiguing labor of rowing must necessarily be suspended till they are mended again. The roofless wagons used in the Philippines are roughly put together at the last moment.
This ethnographical outline Riehl fills up with special and typical descriptions, and then makes it the starting-point for a criticism of the actual political condition of Germany. The volume is fall of vivid pictures, as well as penetrating glances into the maladies and tendencies of modern society. It would be fascinating as literature if it were not important for its facts and philosophy.
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