Race and racism / Ruth Benedict ; foreword by John Rex.

  • Ruth Benedict
Date:
1983
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Credit: Race and racism / Ruth Benedict ; foreword by John Rex. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The white race [today read Nordics ] originally possessed the monopoly of beauty, intelligence, and strength. By its union with other varieties [read Alpines , Mediterraneans ] hybrids were created, which were beautiful without strength, strong without intelligence, or if intelligent, both weak and ugly. Arthur de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of Human Races. Translated by Adrian Collins. London, William Heinemann, 1915, p. 209. List of physical characteristics of the genuine Teuton: The great radiant heavenly eyes, the golden hair, the gigantic stature, the symmetrical muscular development, the lengthened skull (which an ever-active brain, tortured by longing, had changed from the round lines of animal contentedness and extended towards the front), the lofty countenance, required by an elevated spiritual life as the seat of its expression. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. London, John Lane, 1910, Vol. I. What racists say of their own race: Judgment, truthfulness, and energy always distinguish the Nordic man. He feels a strong urge toward truth and justice. % . . Passion in the usual meaning of the rousing of the senses or the heightening of the sexual life has little meaning for him. . . . He is never without a certain knightliness. Hans F. K. Gunther, The Racial Elements of European History. Translated from the second German edition by G. G. Wheeler. London, Methuen & Co., 1927, PP- 5L 52. In mental gifts the Nordic race marches in the van of mankind. Baur, Fischer and Lenz, Human Heredity. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. London, Allen & Unwin, I93L P- 6 55*
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