The Superiority of the Aryan Race

War offers an excellent occasion for observing this phenomenon.

In times of distress, harmless boys suddenly spring up and become heroes.

A special impulse is almost always necessary to bring a man of genius into the foreground. The sledge-hammer of Fate which strikes down the one so easily suddenly finds the counter-impact of steel when it strikes at the other.

And, after the common shell of everyday life is broken, the core that lay hidden in it is displayed to the eyes of an astonished world.

This surrounding world then grows obstinate and will not believe that what had seemed so like itself is really of that different quality so suddenly displayed. This is a process which is repeated probably every time a man of outstanding significance appears.

Though an inventor, for example, does not establish his fame until the very day that he carries through his invention, it would be a mistake to believe that the creative genius did not become alive in him until that moment. From the very hour of his birth the spark of genius is living within the man who has been endowed with the real creative faculty.

True genius is an innate quality. It can never be the result of education or training.

This holds good not merely of the individual but also of the race. Those peoples who manifest creative abilities in certain periods of their history have always been fundamentally creative.

It belongs to their very nature, even though this fact may escape the eyes of the superficial observer. Here also recognition from outside is only the consequence of practical achievement.

Since the rest of the world is incapable of recognizing genius as such, it can only see the visible manifestations of genius in the form of inventions, discoveries, buildings, painting, etc.; but even here a long time passes before recognition is given.

Just as the individual person who has been endowed with the gift of genius, or at least talent of a very high order, cannot bring that endowment to realization until he comes under the urge of special circumstances, so in the life of the nations the creative capacities and powers frequently have to wait until certain conditions stimulate them to action.

The Aryan race has been, and still is, the standard-bearer of human progress.

The last factor is the character of the people. This is the most decisive one.

The more primitive the technical conditions under which the civilizing activity takes place, the more necessary is the existence of manual labour which can be organized and employed so as to take the place of mechanical power.

The inferior races were essential in establishing superior types of civilization.

They alone could supply the lack of mechanical means for progress.

The first stages of human civilization were based on the slavery of the inferior races, not so much on the use of tame animals.

Only after subjugated races were employed as slaves was a similar fate allotted to animals, and not vice versa, as some people would have us believe.

Only pacifists think of this as a sign of human degradation.

They fail to recognize that this evolution had to happen so that man could reach that degree of civilization which these apostles now exploit to make the world pay attention to their rigmarole.

The progress of mankind is like the process of ascending an infinite ladder.

One does not reach the higher level without first having climbed the lower rungs.

The superiority of the Aryans was proven by them subjugating the inferior races and enslaving them. It was not mere chance.

The members of the inferior race became the first mechanical tools in the service of a growing civilization.

Thereby the way was clearly indicated which the Aryan had to follow. As a conqueror, he subjugated inferior races and turned their physical powers into organized channels under his own leadership, forcing them to follow his will and purpose.

By making them as slaves, they made their lives easier had they stayed in ‘freedom’.

The Aryan ruthlessly maintained his position as their master and as the advancer of civilization.

This depended exclusively on his inborn abilities.

However, as soon as his subject began to rise and approach the level of their conqueror through the use of his language, the master-servant barrier broke down.

The Aryan neglected to maintain his own racial stock unmixed and therewith lost the right to live in the paradise which he himself had created.

He became submerged in the racial mixture and gradually lost his cultural creativeness, until he finally grew mentally and physically more like the aborigines whom he had subjected.

That is how cultures and empires decline and yield their places to new formations.

The adulteration of the blood and racial deterioration conditioned thereby are the only causes that account for the decline of ancient civilizations.

War never ruins nations. Ruin happens through the loss of their powers of resistance, which are exclusively a characteristic of pure racial blood.

In this world everything that is not of sound racial stock is like chaff.