The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
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The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
Ethnology -- Europe
The Harmony Society, small in numbers, the Lutherans and German
Reformed, came largely from south Germany and the Palatinate, but also
from other parts of Germany. The Lutherans and the Reformed were the
large sects in Pennsylvania.
Germans from the Hudson valley migrated to Berks County around Reading.
The Swedes in New Jersey were almost exclusively below Philadelphia—from
Gloucester down the Delaware River. Before the Revolution there were
about 30,000 Germans in Pennsylvania, out of a total estimated
population of 100,000 to 120,000.
84 : 16. Scotch-Irish. See _The Scotch-Irish in America_, by Henry Jones
Ford; and also Sir George Trevelyan on the Irish Protestants in chap.
XI, vol. II, of _George III and Charles Fox_.
87 : 24. In this connection it is interesting to note that an early
Egyptian king said almost the same concerning the negroes of his time.
The quotation is taken from Hall’s _Ancient History of the Near East_,
pp. 161–162, and is a translation of a portion of the manifesto of
Senusert III, of the XIIth dynasty, which he caused to be set up at the
time of the Nubian wars: “Vigor is valiant, but cowardice is vile. He is
a coward who is vanquished on his own frontier, since the negro will
fall prostrate at a word; answer him, and he retreats; if one is
vigorous, he turns his back, retiring even when on the way to attack.
Behold, these people have nothing terrible about them; they are feeble
and insignificant; they have buttocks for hearts. I have seen it, even
I, the majesty; it is no lie....”
88 : 9. Barrett Wendell, _A Literary History of America_, chap. III.
88 : 28. The belief in the approximation of the Anglo-Saxon in America
to the Amerindian is widespread, but is entirely without justification,
scientific or otherwise.
89 : 1. Hall, _Immigration Restriction and World Eugenics_, and
especially his _Immigration_, pp. 107–112.
91 : 1. Hall, 2.
94 : 1. Beddoe, 5, p. 416. For similar conclusions see DeLapouge,
_passim_; G. Retzius, 3; and Roese, _Beiträge zur Europäischen
Rassenkunde_. Fleure and James, pp. 125 and 151–152 make similar
observations.
_PART II_
EUROPEAN RACES IN HISTORY
CHAPTER I. EOLITHIC MAN
97 : 10. Osborn, 1, the tables on pp. 18 and 41.
98 : 15. Galton, pp. 309–310; Woods, 1, chap. XVIII.
99 : 5–10. _A Statistical Study of American Men of Science_, J. McKeen
Cattell, especially _Science_, vol. XXXII, no. 828, pp. 553–555.
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