Aryan renounced purity of his own blood and with it his right to stay in the Eden which he had created for himself. He sank, overwhelmed in the mixing of races, and by degrees lost for ever his capacity for civilization until he began to resemble the subjected aboriginal race more than his fathers had done, both in mind and body. For a time he could still enjoy the blessings of civilization, but first indiffer¬ ence set in, and finally oblivion.
This is how civilizations and empires break up to make room for new creations.
Blood-mixture, and the lowering of the racial level which accompanies it, are the one and only cause why old civilizations disappear. It is not lost wars which ruin mankind, but loss of the powers of resistance, which belong to purity of blood alone.
There is in our German language a word which is finely descriptive—readiness to obey the call of duty (Pflichter-fullung)—service in the general interest.
The idea underlying such an attitude we call idealism, in contradistinction to egoism ; and by it we understand the capacity for self-sacrifice in the indi¬ vidual for the community, for his fellow men.
It is at times when ideals are threatening to dis¬ appear that we are able to observe an immediate diminution of that strength, which is the essence of the community and a necessary condition of culture. Then selfishness becomes the governing force in a nation, and in the hunt after happiness the ties of order are loosened and men fall out of heaven straight into hell.
The exact opposite of the Aryan is the Jew. In hardly any nation in the world is the instinct of selfpreservation more strongly developed than in the “Chosen People”. The best proof of this is the fact that that race still