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of the West (r. 800-814)]. The Crusades, the Thirty Years’ -War, the
Napoleonic Wars, the First World War depleted the Nordic stock and left it
too thin to resist the higher birth rate of Alpine and Mediterranean peoples
in Europe and America. By the year 2000, Grant predicted, the Nordics will
have fallen from power, and with their fall Western civilization will
disappear in a new barbarism welling up everywhere from within and from
without. He wisely conceded that the Mediterranean “race,” while inferior
in bodily stamina to both the Nordics and the Alpines, has proved superior
in intellectual and artistic attainments; to it must go the credit for the classic
flowering of Greece and Rome; however, it may have owed much to
intermarriage with Nordic blood.

Some weaknesses in the race theory are obvious. A Chinese scholar

would remind us that his people created the most enduring civilization in
history–statesmen, inventors, artists, poets, scientists, philosophers, saints
from 2000 B.C. to our own time. A Mexican scholar could point to the
lordly structures of Mayan, Aztec, and Incan cultures in pre-Columbian
America. A Hindu scholar, while acknowledging “Aryan” infiltration into
north India some sixteen hundred years before Christ, would recall that the
black Dravidic peoples of south India produced great builders and poets of
their own; the temples of Madras, Madura, and Trichinopoly are among the
most impressive structures on earth. Even more startling is the towering
shrine of the Khmers at Angkor Wat. History is color-blind, and can
develop a civilization (in any favorable environment) under almost any
skin.

Difficulties remain even if the race theory is confined to the white man.

The Semites would recall the civilizations of Babylonia, Assyria, Syria,
Palestine, Phoenicia, Carthage, and Islam. The Jews gave the Bible and
Christianity to Europe, and much of the Koran to Mohammed [Mohammed
(570-632)]. The Mohammedans could list the rulers, artists, poets,
scientists, and philosophers who conquered and adorned a substantial

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