The Great Race Passes 



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"Mental, spiritual and moral traits 

 are closely associated with the physical 

 distinctions among the different Euro- 

 pean races. . . . The Alpine race is 

 always and everj^vhere a race of peas- 

 ants, an agricultural and never a 

 maritime race." 



"The Nordics are, all over the world, 

 a race of soldiers, sailors, adventurers 

 and explorers, but above all, of rulers, 

 organizers and aristocrats in sharp 

 contrast to the essentially peasant 

 character of the Alpines." 



"The mental characteristics of the 

 Mediterranean race are well known, 

 and this race, while inferior in bodily 

 stamina to both the Nordic and the 

 Alpine, is probably the superior of 

 both, certainly of the Alpines, in 

 intellectual achievement. In the field 

 of art its superiority to both the other 

 European races is unquestioned." 



As the Nordic has always been a 

 race of fighting men, it is not surprising 

 that it should have suffered severe losses, 

 such as occurred during the Thirty 

 Years' War in Germany, to name only 

 one example. "All the states involved 

 in the present world war have sent to 

 the front their fighting Nordic element, 

 and the loss of life now going on in 

 Europe will fall much more heavily on 

 the blond giant than on the little 

 brunet." 



"The wars of the last 2,000 years in 

 Europe have been almost exclusive!}' 

 wars between the various nations of 

 this race, or between rulers of Nordic 

 blood. 



"From a race point of view the present 

 European conflict is essentially a civil 

 war, and nearly all the officers and a 

 large proportion of the men on both sides 

 are members of this race. ... It is 

 hard to say on which side there is a 

 preponderance of Nordic blood, as 

 Flanders and northern France are more 

 Teutonic than south Germany, and the 

 backbone of the armies that England 

 has put in the field, together with those 

 of her colonies, are almost purely 

 Nordic, while a large proportion of the 

 Russian armies is of the same race." 



In addition to losses in fighting, the 

 Nordic race has suffered severe losses in 



recent centuries through emigration to 

 countries where it coiild not thrive. 

 Further, the author thinks it is less 

 adapted to urban life than is the 

 Mediterranean race, and is therefore 

 succumbing under modern conditions 

 to the competition of the latter. All 

 over the world, the Great Race is 

 passing. 



THE NORDICS IN AMERICA 



In America, Mr. Grant believes, the 

 outlook for it is particularly gloomy, 

 due to the disregard, during the last 

 half century or more, of the elementary 

 principles of biology. 



"Race consciousness in the colonies 

 and in the United States, down to and 

 including the Mexican War, seems to 

 have been very strongly developed 

 among native Americans, and it still 

 remains in full vigor today in the 

 South, where the presence of a large 

 negro population forces this question 

 upon the daily attention of the whites. 



"In New England, however, whether 

 through the decline of Calvinism or the 

 gro\\^h of altruism, there appeared 

 early in the last century a wave of 

 sentimentalism, which at that time 

 took up the cause of the negro, and in 

 so doing apparently destroyed, to a 

 large extent, pride and consciousness 

 of race in the north. The agitation 

 over slavery was inimical to the Nordic 

 race, because it thrust aside all national 

 opposition to the intrusion of hordes of 

 immigrants of inferior racial value, 

 and preventing the fixing of a definite 

 American type, such as was clearly 

 appearing in the middle of the century. 



"The Civil War was fought almost 

 entirely by unalloyed native Amer- 

 icans." 



"The prosperity that followed the 

 war attracted hordes of newcomers 

 who were welcomed by the native 

 Americans to operate factories, build 

 railroads, and fill up the waste spaces — 

 'developing the country' it was called. 



"These new immigrants were no 

 longer exclusively of the Nordic race 

 as were the earlier ones who came of 

 their own impulse to improve their 

 social conditions. The transportation 



