Passing of the Great Race, Or, the Racial Basis of European History (American Immigration Collection)

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Passing of the Great Race, Or, the Racial Basis of European History (American Immigration Collection) - by, Madison Grant
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Mankind emerged from savagery and barbarism under the leadership of selected individuals
whose personal prowess, capacity, or wisdom gave them the right to lead and the power to
compel obedience.

INTRODUCTION

THE following pages are devoted to an attempt to elucidate the meaning of history in terms of
race; that is, by the physical and psychical characters of the inhabitants of Europe instead of by their political grouping, or by their spoken language. Practically all historians, while using the word race, have relied on tribal or national names as its sole definition. The ancients, like the moderns, in determining ethnical origin, did not look beyond a man's name, language, or country, and the actual information furnished by classic literature on the subject of physical characters is limited to a few scattered and often obscure remarks.Modern anthropology has demonstrated that racial lines are not only absolutely independent of both national and linguistic groupings, but that in many cases these racial lines cut through them at sharp angles and correspond closely with the divisions of social cleavage. The great lesson of the science of race is the immutability of somatological or bodily characters, with which is
closely associated the immutability of psychical predispositions and impulses.

This continuity of inheritance has a most important bearing on the theory of democracy and still more upon that of socialism, and those, engaged in social uplift and in revolutionary movements are consequently usually very intolerant of the limitations imposed by heredity.

Democratic theories of government in their modern form are based on dogmas of equality formulated some hundred and fifty years ago, and rest upon the assumption that environment and not heredity is the controlling factor in human development. Philanthropy and noble purpose dictated the doctrine expressed in the Declaration of independence, the document which to-day constitutes the actual basis of American institutions.

The men who wrote the words, "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," were themselves the owners of slaves, and despised Indians as something less than human. Equality in their minds meant merely that they were just as good Englishmen as their brothers across the sea.

The words"that all men are created equal" have since been subtly falsified by adding the word "free,"although no such expression is found in he original document,and the teachings based on these altered words in the American publicschools of to-day would startle and amaze the men who formulated the Declaration.

The laws of nature operate with the same relentless and unchanging force in human affairs as in the phenomena of inanimate nature, and the basis of the government of man is now and always has been, and always will be,force and not sentiment, a truth demonstrated anew by the present world conflagration. It will be necessary for the reader to strip his mind of all preconceptions as to race, since modern anthropology, when applied to history, involves an entire change of definition.

We must, first of all, realize that race pure and simple, the physical and psychical structure of man, is something entirely distinct from either nationality or language, and that race lies to-day at the base of all the phenomena of modern society, just as it has done throughout the unrecorded eons of the past.
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Part I - Race, Language, And Nationality

Introduction
I. Race And Democracy
II. The Physical Basis Of Race
III. Race And Habitat
IV. The Competition Of Races
V. Race, Language, And Nationality
VI. Race And Language
VII. The European Races In Colonies

Part II - European Races In History

I. Eolithic Man
II. Paleolithic Man
III. The Neolithic And Bronze Ages
IV. The Alpine Race
V. The Mediterranean Race
VI. The Nordic Race
VII. Teutonic Europe

VIII. The Expansion Of The Nordics
IX. The Nordic Fatherland
X. Nordic Race Outside Of Europe
XI. The Racial Aptitudes
XII. Arya
XIII. The Origin Of The Aryan Languages
XIV. The Aryan Language In Asia
XV. Bibliography
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