Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-28
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

ests of Europe the Arabian deserts, and the
seasonal pastures of Central Asia, there de-
veloped the other hand, thinner, more
active population of peoples, the primitive
nomadic peoples.
WANDERING ADVENTURES
In contrast with the settled folk, the agri-
culturists, these nomads lived freely and dan,
gerously. They were in comparison lean and
hungry men. Their herding was still blended
with hunting; they fought constantly for their
pastures against hostile families. The discOv-
cries in the elaboration of implements and the
use of metals made by the settled peoples
spread to them and improved their weapons.
They followed the settled folk from Neolithic
phase to Bronze phase 1t is possible that in
the case of iron the first users were nomadic.
They became more warlike with better arms
and more capable Of rapid movements with
the improvement of their transport. One must
not think of a nomadic stage as predecessor
of a settled stage in human affairs. To begin
/ with, was a slow drifter, following food.
Then one sort of men began to settle down,
and another sort became more distinctly
nomadic. The settled sort began to rely more
and more upon grain for food the nomad be-
gan to make a greater use of milk for food
He bred his COWS for milk.
The two ways of life specialized in oppo-
site directions. 1t was inevitable that nomad
folk and the settled folk should clash, that
the nOmads should seem hard barbarians to
the settled peoples, and the settled peoples
soft and effeminate and very good plumber to
the nomad peoples. Along the frnges of the
developing civilizations there must have been
constant raiding and pickering between
hardy nomad tribes and mountain tribes and
the more numerous and less warlihe peoples
in the towns and villages.
| For the most part this mere raiding
of the borders. The settled folk had the
| weight of hair eli
men might raid and loot, but they could not
| stay. That sort of mutual friction might go
on for many generations
But ever and again we find some leader or
some tribe amidst the disorder of free and in
dependent nomads powerful enough to force q
sort of unity upon its kindred tribes, and then
woe betide the nearest civilization. Down
pour the united nomads on the unwarlike,
unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of
conquest.
THE CONQUERORS CONQUERED
Instead of carrying off the booty, the con-
querors settle down on the conquered land,
which becomes all booty for them; the viii
| layers and townsmen are reduced to servitude
and tribute-paying, they become hewers of
wood and drawers of water, and the leaders of
the no1nads become kings and princes, mas
tiers and aristocrats. They, too, settle down,
! they learn many of the arts and refnements
|
| hungry, but for many generations they retain
traces of their old nomadic habits, they hunt
and indulge in open-air sports, they drive
and race chariots, they regard work, especially
agricultural work, as the lot of an inferior
! race and class.
| This in thousand variations has been one
of the main stories in history for the last
! seventy centuries or more. In the first his
| tory that we can clearly decipher we find al
ready in all the civilized regions distinction
between a non-working ruler class and the
working class Of the population.
! And we find, too, that after some genera
lions, the aristocrat, having settled down, be-
gins to respect the arts and refinements and
lawabidngness of settlement, and to lose
something of his original hardwood. He in
! ter-marries, he patches up a sort Of tolera-
| ton between conqueror and conquered; he
| exchanges religious ideas and learns the les
sons upon which soil and climate insist. He
| becomes part of the civilization he has cap
! tured And as he does so, events gather TO-
! wards fresh position by the free adventures
| of the outer world.
Copyright, 1929
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