the Indians) to the whites in Latin America (who did). Only those who are
themselves the product of such enfeebling mixtures talk of the equality of
races, or think that “all men are brothers.”
All strong characters and
peoples are race conscious, and are instinctively averse to marriage outside
their own racial group.
In 1899 Houston Stewart Chamberlain [Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
(1855-1927)], an Englishman who had made Germany his home, published
Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the
Nineteenth Century), which narrowed the creative race from Aryans to
Teutons: “True history begins from the moment when the German with
mighty hand seizes the inheritance of antiquity.” Dante’s [Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)] face struck Chamberlain as characteristically German; he
thought he heard unmistakably German accents in St. Paul’s [Paul, Saint (d.
67?)] Epistle to the Galatians; and though he was not quite sure that Christ
was a German, he was confident that “whoever maintains that Christ was a
Jew is either ignorant or dishonest.
“German writers were too polite to
contradict their guest: Treitschke [Treitschke, Heinrich von (1834-96)] and
Bernhardi [Bernhardi, Friedrich von (1849-1930)] admitted that the
Germans were the greatest of modern peoples; Wagner [Wagner, Richard
(1813-83)] put the theory to music; Alfred Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alfred
(1893-1946)] made German blood and soil the inspiring “myth of the
twentieth century”; and Adolf Hitler [Hitler, Adolf (20/04/1889-
30/04/1945) [QuocSan]], on this basis, roused the Germans to slaughter a
people and to undertake the conquest of Europe.
An American, Madison Grant [Grant, Madison (1865-1937)], in The
Passing of the Great Race (1916), confined the achievements of civilization
to that branch of the Aryans which he called “Nordics”–Scandinavians,
Scythians, Baltic Germans, Englishmen, and Anglo-Saxon Americans.
Cooled to hardness by northern winters, one or another tribe of these fair-
haired, blue-eyed “blond beasts” swept down through Russia and the
Balkans into the lazy and lethargic South in a series of conquests marking
