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by Wayne Macleod
The following is an excerpt from the book
"The Importance of Race in Civilisation"
"The liberal intellectual is
not wholly to blame for his misunderstanding of `racism` and his often
emotional denunciation of anything that appears so chauvinistic, for after all,
in this cosmopolitan era, he himself more often than not has associated with
people of a different ethnic background than his own, whom he recognises as
having nothing more than a superficial difference from his own kin. If he is a
university student or graduate he is apt to be even fanatical in his scorn of
racism, since here, in the seats of higher learning, must be positioned minds
of great scope and understanding, which have no patience with out-dated brute
concepts. And, of course, if one is particularly interested in the subject,
there is an array of literature and opinions presented in everything from the
press to scholarly thick volumes, to confirm the notion that racism is
primitive, unsophisticated, and has no place in the modern world. I shall
hereby disprove these notions, and show that they are based on nothing more
than emotional sentimentalism, supported by distorted facts, that have no
meaning to a logical mind. In so doing we need have no fear of being cast in
bad company, since Lincoln, Madison, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, Clay,
Webster, Douglas, even the composer, Wagner, are some of the men who took
similar stands.The most glaring departure which all persons affected by the idealistic, humanitarian conceptions of brotherhood make from the instincts of
the man in the street, is that of condoning mixed-marriages, since to these far
sighted intellectuals, racial suicide is not committed. The America of the
future, they believe, belongs to the new breed of men which will arise from the
glorious inter mixture of ethnic odds and ends thrown together from every corner
of the earth, blinding themselves to the evidence that this has been the
general course of events throughout the world, in Latin America, the
Mediterranean and Near East regions, in southern Asia, and nowhere is the
plight of their precious humanity so desperate as in these same areas. On the
other hand, the peoples which have saved themselves from extreme out-breeding -
the Germanic Caucasians, the Chinese, the Japanese - are similarly the ones
which aspire to greatness."
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