The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
History
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
Ethnology -- Europe
border-land between genius and insanity.
The essential character of all these racial mixtures is a lack of
harmony—both physical and mental—in the first few generations. Then, if
the strain survives, it is by the slow reversion to one of the parent
types—almost inevitably the lower.
The temporary advantage of mere numbers enjoyed by the inferior classes
in modern democracies can only be made permanent by the destruction of
superior types—by massacre, as in Russia, or by taxation, as in England.
In the latter country the financial burdens of the war and the selfish
interests of labor have imposed such a load of taxation upon the upper
and middle classes that marriage and children are becoming increasingly
burdensome.
The best example of complete elimination of a dominant class is in Santo
Domingo. The horrors of the black revolt were followed by the slow death
of the culture of the white man. This history should be studied
carefully because it gives in prophetic form the sequence of events that
we may expect to find in Mexico and in parts of South America where the
replacement of the higher type by the resurgent native is taking place.
In the countries inhabited by a population more or less racially uniform
the phenomenon of the multiplication of the inferior classes fostered
and aided by the noble but fatuous philanthropy of the well-to-do
everywhere appears. Nature’s laws when unchecked maintain a relatively
fixed ratio between the classes, which is greatly impaired in modern
society by humanitarian and charitable activities. The resurgence of
inferior races and classes throughout not merely Europe but the world,
is evident in every despatch from Egypt, Ireland, Poland, Rumania, India
and Mexico. It is called nationalism, patriotism, freedom and other
high-sounding names, but it is everywhere the phenomenon of the
long-suppressed, conquered servile classes rising against the master
race. The late Peloponnesian War in the world at large, like the Civil
War in America, has shattered the prestige of the white race and it will
take several generations and perhaps wars to recover its former control,
if it ever does regain it. The danger is from within and not from
without. Neither the black, nor the brown, nor the yellow, nor the red
will conquer the white in battle. But if the valuable elements in the
Nordic race mix with inferior strains or die out through race suicide,
then the citadel of civilization will fall for mere lack of defenders.
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