The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic DoctrineA.A. Knopf, 1926 - 382 من الصفحات |
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Alpine American Ammon Anglo-Saxon anthropological areas Arthur de Gobineau Aryan Aryan race average basis biological blond blood brachycephalic brain British brunet C. B. Davenport capacity Celtic Celts cent century cephalic index Chamberlain character cities civilization classes culture dark differences Dixon doctrine dolichocephalic doubt endowed England European evidence eyes fact factors France Francis Galton French frequently genetic genius German Gobineau hair head-form heads hereditary human hybrid Ibid immigrants important individuals inferior intelligence Jews Karl Pearson Lapouge less long-headed Madison Grant Mediterranean mental migration mixed Moreover nation negro Neolithic Nordic race original physical traits political population Professor proportions pure blond pure Nordic purity qualities race crossing race mixture racial elements racial types relative Ripley rôle round-heads selection Sellière Slavs social stature superior tall tendency Teutonic theory tion urban York
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الصفحة 18 - To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
الصفحة 165 - We belong to the Anglican race, which carries Anglican principles and liberty over the globe, because wherever it moves, liberal institutions and a common law full of manly rights and instinct with the principle of an expansive life accompany it. We belong to that race whose obvious task it is, among other proud and sacred tasks, to rear and spread civil liberty over vast regions in every part of the earth, on continent and isle. We belong to that tribe which alone has the word self-government.
الصفحة 18 - I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor brain nor skull ; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language.
الصفحة 303 - As between whites, Indians, Eskimos, Ainus, Filipinos and Singhalese, the average differences were small, and much overlapping occurred. As between these groups, however, and the Igorot and Negrito from the Philippines and a few reputed Pygmies from the Congo, the average differences were great, and the overlapping was small.
الصفحة 228 - His nervous and mental energies, instead of flowing out freely to meet and play upon the outer world, seem apt to turn inward, determining him to brooding, reflection, deliberation before action. And, when he is subject to strain, his energies are absorbed in internal conflicts; he becomes dead to the outer world, languid, absorbed, self-centered, and full of vague distress
الصفحة 146 - ... advice in all things ; the unsurpassed fervour of national feeling, and the closeness with •which those who are fellow-countrymen cling together almost like one family in opposition to the stranger ; the inclination to rise in revolt under the first chance leader that presents himself and to form bands, but at the same time the utter incapacity to preserve a self-reliant courage equally remote from presumption and from pusillanimity, to perceive the right time for waiting and for striking,...
الصفحة 170 - Certainly the Providence which created the human race and presides over its development knows best what are the true claims of humanity ; and if the history of the world is to be taken as the revelation of Providence in regard to this matter, we are forced to conclude that national states are intended by it as the prime organs of human development ; and therefore, that it is the highest duty of the state to preserve, strengthen and develop its own national character.
الصفحة 350 - ... clear, that the revival of culture had its start; that many of the forerunners and leaders of the Reformation, such as Huss, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, all came from regions where the fusion of types must have been vigorously going on? The complexity of the causes underlying all such great movements are, it need hardly be said, very great, yet I cannot but feel that, among the many potent factors which have determined or directed the rise of modern European civilization, this one of the fusion...
الصفحة 168 - Only the Teutonic nations have produced national states"; and because this form of political organization solves the great problems of government, such as the reconciliation of liberty with authority, and the relation of local to central power, the Teutonic nations are authorized "in the economy of the world, to assume the leadership in the establishment and administration of states.
الصفحة 30 - At the same time the fact that the first Aryans were Nordics was not without importance. The physical qualities of that stock did enable them by the bare fact of superior strength to conquer even more advanced peoples and so to impose their language on areas from, which their bodily type has almost completely vanished. This is the truth underlying the panegyrics of the Germanists : the Nordics' superiority in physique fitted them to be the vehicles of a superior language.