the dawn of recorded history. According to Grant the “Sacae” (Scythians?)
invaded India, developed Sanskrit as an “Indo-European” language, and
established the caste system to prevent their deterioration through
intermarriage with dark native stocks. The Cimmerians poured over the
Caucasus into Persia, the Phrygians into Asia Minor, the Achaeans and
Dorians into Greece and Crete, the Umbrians and Oscans into Italy.
Everywhere the Nordics were adventurers, warriors, disciplinarians; they
made subjects or slaves of the temperamental, unstable, and indolent
“Mediterranean” peoples of the South, and they intermarried with the
intermediate quiet and acquiescent “Alpine” stocks to produce the
Athenians of the Periclean apogee and the Romans of the Republic. The
Dorians intermarried least, and became the Spartans, a martial Nordic caste
ruling “Mediterranean” helots. Intermarriage weakened and softened the
Nordic stock in Attica, and led to the defeat of Athens by Sparta in the
Peloponnesian War, and the subjugation of Greece by the purer Nordics of
Macedonia and Republican Rome.
In another inundation of Nordics–from Scandinavia and northern
Germany–Goths and Vandals conquered Imperial Rome; Angles and
Saxons conquered England and gave it a new name; Franks conquered
Gaul and gave it their name. Still later, the Nordic Normans conquered
France, England, and Sicily. The Nordic Lombards followed their long
beards into Italy, intermarried, and vitalized Milan and Florence into a
Renaissance. Nordic Varangians conquered Russia, and ruled it till 1917.
Nordic Englishmen colonized America and Australia, conquered India, and
set their sentinels in every major Asiatic port.
In our time (Grant mourned) this Nordic race is abandoning its mastery.
It lost its footing in France in 1789; as Camille Desmoulins [Desmoulins,
Camille (1760-94)] told his café audience, the Revolution was a revolt of
the indigenous Gauls (“Alpines”) against the Teutonic Franks who had
subjugated them under Clovis [Clovis I, King of the Franks (r. 481-511)]
and Charlemagne [Charlemagne, King of the Franks (r. 768-814), Emperor
