"The foundation of modern "scientific" racism was Gobineau's (1853-5) Essay on the Inequality of

Human Races. Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) was a one-time diplomat who held that humanity
is divided into three races, white, yellow and black. He considered that his reasoning established
that the black race had an "animal character, that appears in the shape of the pelvis"; has a crude
yet powerful energy; and dull mental faculties but has an "intensity of desire". The yellow race has
little physical energy; feeble desires; mediocrity; a respect for order; and "does not dream or
theorise". The whites have an energetic intelligence, perseverance, instinct for order, love of
liberty, and sense of honour; they can be cruel, but when they are "they are conscious of their
cruelty; it is very, doubtful whether such a consciousness exists in the negro".
"Gobineau was, naturally enough for Europeans of his day, a Biblical literalist; and he remained
so all his life, seeing in Darwinism a negation of his view that races always had been and always
would be as they now are"
http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/cg_science_of_racism.htm
"Although the beginnings of racism lie far back in history, its actual modern development really
begins with the Frenchman, Arthur Count de Gobineau [1816-1882] who published his classic
racist pronouncement "Essay on the Inequality of Human Races" in 1853-1857. Greatly
misinterpreted by others, he wrote in a romantic fashion of a fair-haired Aryan race that was
superior to all others. Gobineau maintained that remnants of this race could be found in various
countries in Europe constituting a tiny racial aristocracy decaying under the overwhelming weight
of inferior races. He made no special claims for the superiority of German Aryans, nor markedly
denigrated other races. His racialism embraced not so much the races as the classes, the
aristocracy versus the proletariat. Nevertheless, his ideas were widely distorted to fit the racial
superiority theories of others. Hardly noticed in his own country, he enjoyed great popularity in
Germany.... In 1890 Gobineau's book was revived and in 1894 the Gobineau Association was
founded in Germany. His writings were popularised at this time by the Pan-Germans, an
extremely nationalistic and anti-Jewish group who, though small in numbers, were very strong,
their members including a high proportion of teachers.In 1899, Gobineau's disciples Houston
Stewart Chamberlain [1855-1927], an Englishman holding German citizenship, published his two
volume work, "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century", in Germany. It proved immensely
popular and ran into many editions. Departing from Gobineau's rather flowery ideas, he upheld
the German race to be the purest form of Aryanism and damned the inferior races, the Jews and
Negroes, as degenerate.Chamberlain combined the scientific fact of the existence of different
races with an enriched mystical significance attached to one race, the Aryans, who had
supposedly existed since the dawn of time. These mystical Aryans were held to be responsible
for all the great cultures of the past, each of which had declined because the Aryans allowed
other races to intermix with them resulting in the fall of that civilisation-Egypt, Greece, Rome all
perished. " http://www.toolan.com/hitler/surplus.html
"Nazi ideology, to the extent that it had one, made garbled use of the racist theories of the Comte
de Gobineau, the national fervour of Heinrich von Treitschke, and the superman theories of
Friedrich Nietzsche. It was given dogmatic expression in Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925)."
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/220617
" One of the most influential writers on racial theory during the nineteenth century was Arthur De
Gobineau, whose Essay On _The Inequality of the Races_ (1854) would become a major
component of the racial theories found in Hitler's Mein Kampf. Gobineau maintained that racial
mixture would bring about the decline of superior peoples. Given the imperialistic and
ethnocentric climate of European thought during this period, Gobineau meant that the Nordic and
Teutonic peoples of Europe would lose their "racial superiority" if they mixed with the darker
skinned peoples of the Mediterranean and Africa. Later, the British racial theorist Houston
Stewart Chamberlain would build on Gobineau's ideas to expound a threat by "Semitic" peoples
against the purity of the Germanic "Aryan race. (Dawidowicz, pg 32). He also characterized this
struggle as an outgrowth of the battle between good and evil (Encyclopedia Judaica, Pg. 183),
which placed the race war to come in moral terms. This approach would become a familiar theme
in Hitler's Mein Kampf. " http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/holocaust/whatisrace.htm

"The supremacy of the Nordic Aryan was first proclaimed in a book (Inequality of Human Races
(1854)) by a French author and diplomat (count Joseph Author Gobineau) thirty-five years before
Hitler was born. Gobineau picked up the notion, set forth sixty years earlier by the English
philologist, Sir William Jones, that in antiquity there had been a great and pure Aryan race.
Gobineau insisted that just as the Aryans were superior in the past they were still so in the
present. He propounded the doctrine that different races are innately unequal in talent, worth and
ability. Gobineau argued that only the "white Aryan races" were capable of creating culture and
that the "darker races" only borrow. He proclaimed that races change their innate character only
by crossbreeding and that the white race was "exhausted" because their racial composition was
no longer pure.The nationalism of the time led most white intellectuals to accept Gobineau's view.
They attempted to prove that their own national group had most closely preserved its pristine
racial purity and virtue. In France, racialist interpreters (Pictet in 1859 and Lapouge in 1899)
"proved" the innate superiority of the "French race." In Great Britain and in the United States
there were "numerous supporters of the view that the 'Anglo-Saxons' were the human cream of
the 'racial' crop; among these were the British historians J. A. Froude (1818-1894) and J.R.
Green (1837-1883), and the later American writers Madison Grant, Homer Lea, and Lothrop
Stoddard."1 In Russia, racialist tinged publications like Nikolai Danilevsky's Pan-Slavism Russia
and Europe (1869), coupled with a nationalistic populist movement, proclaimed the "Slavs as one
of the finest products of civilization."2 In Germany and Austria, pride in one's alleged Aryan
origins also found its proponents in men like Wagner who declared the superiority of the German
race." http://smoter.com/aryans.htm
"Nazi ideology drew on the racist doctrines of the comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart
Chamberlain, on the nationalism of Heinrich von Treitschke , and on the hero-cult of Friedrich
Nietzsche , often transforming the ideas of these thinkers. Nazi dogma, partly articulated by Hitler
in Mein Kampf, was elaborated by the fanatical Alfred Rosenberg . "
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/NatlSoci_Ideology.asp
"Racial theorists in the 19th century were the first to confuse the term "Aryan" (a linguistic term)
with race. The term "Semitic" also had a linguistic origin. Of particular interest among the early
racial theorists was Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), who used anthropology, linguistics and
history to formulate a theory in which race explained virtually everything in the human experience.
In his "Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races," Gobineau argued that he and his fellow
French aristocrats were superior to the French masses by virtue of their pure Aryan stock. The
decisive events of history are determined by the iron law of race, he asserted, and human destiny
is decreed by nature and expressed in race. "History shows that all civilization flows from the
white race," and the jewel of this race is the Aryan, which survived as a superior race, he
maintained. However, he warned that cross-breeding and race-mixing were threatening its very
survival. Gobineau's essay was translated into German forty years later and had a powerful
influence on Germans such as composer Richard Wagner and his son-in-law, Houston Stewart
Chamberlain, who, in turn, influenced Nazi racial doctrine. "
http://www.remember.org/guide/History.root.modern.html
"Joseph-Arthur, comte de Gobineau (b. July 14, 1816, Ville-d'Avray, Fr.--d. Oct. 13, 1882, Turin,
Italy) was a writer and ethnologist who created a theory of racial determinism that had lasting
impact on European and American racial beliefs. Between 1853 and 1855, Gobineau published a
4 volume work entitled Essay on the Inequality of Human Races in which he argued that the
Aryan race were superior to all others. The term Aryan was derived from Sanskrit word arya
meaning noble and represented a people who lived in northern India. 19th century linguists traced
all European languagues to an Indo-European origin. Immodestly declaring Aryans the pinnacle
of civilization, the race Gobineau explained was responsible for everything and anything valuable
ever created. Therefore they had to preserve their special racial character by preventing
intermixture with inferior races.Gobineau's admirers included his student Houston Stewart
Chamberlain and Adolph Hitler, among others."
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/History/White.htm

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by Charles Darwin but does have4 versions of Mein Kampf and this: PHILOSOPHY OF COUNT
DE GOBINEAU, By Spring
"The idea that the blond Aryans were a superior race was first raised explicitly in 1853 by one
Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobineau. De Gobineau was a respected ethnologist who argued in all
seriousness that the Aryan races would prosper as long as they did not allow themselves to be
tainted by mixing with black and yellow peoples. De Gobineau's ideas were widely popular and
are said to have influenced Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Stripped of the scholarly
trappings, Aryanism soon filtered down to the beer halls and eventually became one of the central
tenets of Nazism. By then it had shed any linguistic significance; Hitler justified his persecution of
the Slavs on the grounds that they were racially inferior, although they spoke Aryan languages."
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_269.html
"German eugenics was influenced by an aristocratic French writer, Arthur Count de Gobineau
(1816-1882). In the mid-1850s, Gobineau had published a racist tome entitled Essay on the
Inequality of Human Races. He argued that a tiny fair-haired Aryan aristocracy had always been
the flower of Europe, but it had lost its vigor by intermarriage with inferior races. The French
generally ignored the book, but Germans loved it. In 1890, the book was revived, and in 1894
admirers founded the Gobineau Association, which included many teachers.
In 1899, an
Englishman holding German citizenship, Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927), published a
book building on Gobineau, entitled The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. He argued that
the Germans were the purest of the Aryans, and he attacked Jews and blacks. The book was
reprinted over and over.
When Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf -- exalting the Aryans,
promoting eugenics, and damning the Jews -- his writing was powerful, but not original. "
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap09.html
"Dr. Alfred Ploetz ... in 1905 founded the "Gesellschaft fr Rassenhygiene" [Society for Racial
Hygiene] in Germany. Later it changed its name to "Gesellschaft fr Rassenhygiene (Eugenik)",
which means the Society for Racial Hygiene (Eugenics). This change of name took place after
Galton's announcement that racial hygiene and eugenics were in fact synonymous terms. These
terms used in the German language were not only interchangeable, but racial hygiene was taken
to be the German translation of eugenics. As racial hygiene was closely connected with political
anthropology - a pseudo-science developed by Gobineau - eugenics was used as the scientific
basis upon which racialist and political ideas, especially those of the Nazis, were based."
http://www.africa2000.com/INDX/hitlersmen02.html
"During the 19th century there arose a notion--propagated most assiduously by the Comte de
Gobineau and later by his disciple Houston Stewart Chamberlain of an "Aryan race," those who
spoke Indo-European languages, who were considered to be responsible for all the progress that
mankind had made and who were also morally superior to "Semites," "yellows," and "blacks." The
Nordic, or Germanic, peoples came to be regarded as the purest "Aryans." This notion, which had
been repudiated by anthropologists by the second quarter of the 20th century, was seized upon
by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and made the basis of the German government policy of
exterminating Jews, Gypsies, and other "non-Aryans. ... Gobineau's theories, now discredited,
were the product of years of historical, anthropological, and ethnological studies and were part of
a general European interest in biological and sociological determinism. The Essai had a marked
effect on the thinking of such men as the Germans Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, and,
in time, a movement called Gobinism developed. In the 20th century, racist politicians such as
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, an English disciple of Wagner, and Adolf Hitler turned to
Gobineau for inspiration." http://www.diespinne.org/histime.htm

"The superiority of white Caucasion Europeans had been proved in battle after bloody battle all

over the globe. Gobineau, a philosopher of 19th century Europe translated this supermacy into a
doctrine which proclaimed that God made man in three or four different experiments before his
hand achieved perfection. In experiment one, he overbaked the clay and as happens to bread,
the product was burnt black. This was the African race. The next experiment went the other way
and the underexposure produced the light coloured Chinese. The third attempt was browned by
the fire and God had boobed once more and produced the Indians. Only at the fourth attempt did
God achieve perfection in the form of the Caucasian European in this way was obviously Gods
chosen and hence a master race. Adolf Hitler believed in this rabid racist construct. He further
wished to correct the errors of the Almighty by extermining all those who were non-white. He
believed these mistakes to be pathogenic mutants and a peril to the master race."
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"National Socialism was not grounded in a well-formulated ideology. Its underlying ideas included
such abstruse and contradictory doctrines as the following: the Nordic master race was created to
rule over inferior races, especially the Jews;" http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_national.html