"'If, however, the Teutons were not the only people who moulded the world's history' (generous admission) 'they unquestionably' (that _unquestionably_!) 'deserve the first place; all those who appear as genuine shapers of the destinies of mankind, whether as builders of States or as discoverers of new thoughts and of original art' (oh Japan! oh Ming dynasty! oh art and life of India!) 'belong to the Teutonic race. The impulse given by the Arabs is short lived' (astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, modern science generally!); 'the Mongolians destroy but do not create anything' (Samarkand, Delhi, Pekin); 'the great Italians of the _rinascimento_ were _all_ born either in the north, saturated with Lombardic, Gothic, and Frankish blood, or in the extreme Germano-Hellenic south; in Spain it was the Western Goths who formed the element of life; the Jews are working out their "Renaissance" of to-day by following in every sphere as closely as possible the example of the Teutonic peoples.' "That dodge of claiming all the great figures of the non-Teutonic nations as Teutons is carried out to magnificent extremes. Dante is a Teuton on the strength of his profile and his surname, and there is some fine play about the race of Christ. He came from Galilee, notoriously non-Jewish, and so on; but Lord Redesdale, who writes a sympathetic Introduction, sets the seal on the Teutonic nationality of Christ by reminding us that Joseph was only the putative father.... "It makes a born Teuton like myself feel his divinity," said Wilkins, and read, browsing: "'From the moment the Teuton awakes a new world begins to open out----' Um! Um!... Oh, here we are again!-- "'It is equally untrue that our culture is a renaissance of the Hellenic and the Roman; it was only after the birth of the Teutonic peoples that the renaissance of past achievements was possible and not _vice versâ_.'... I wonder what exactly _vice versâ_ means there!... 'The mightiest creators of that epoch--a Shakespeare, a Michael Angelo--_do not know a word of Greek or Latin_.'