NATION AND RAGE THERE are numberless examples in history, showing with terrible plainness how each time Aryan blood became mixed with that of inferior peoples the result has been the end of the culture-sustaining race. North America, the population of which consists for the most part of Germanic elements, which mixed very little with inferior coloured nations, displays humanity and culture very different from that of Central and South America, in which the settlers, mainly Latin in origin, mingled their blood very freely with that of the aborigines. Taking the above as an example, we clearly recognize the effects of racial intermixture. The man of Ger¬ manic race on the continent of America, having kept himself pure and unmixed, has risen to be its master ; and he will remain master so long as he does not fall into the shame of mixing the blood.
Perhaps the pacifist-humane idea is quite a good one in cases where the man at the top has first thoroughly conquered and subdued the world to the extent of making himself sole master of it. Then the principle, when applied in practice, will not affect the mass of the people injuriously. Thus, first the struggle and then pacifism. Otherwise it means that humanity has passed the highest point in its development, and the end is not domination by any ethical idea, but barbarism, and chaos to follow. Some will naturally laugh at this, but this planet travelled through the ether for millions of years devoid of humanity, and it can only do so again if men forget that they owe their higher existence MY STRUGGLE I 2 I not to the ideas of a mad ideologue, but to under¬ standing and ruthless application of age-old natural laws.
All that we admire on this earth—science, art, technical skill and invention—is the creative product of only a small number of nations,