Therewith we may lay down the following principle as valid:
Every racial mixture leads of necessity sooner or later to the down-
- fall of the mongrel product, provided the higher racial strata of this _
eross-breed has not retained within itself some
sort of racial —
homogeneity.
The danger to the mongrels ceases only when this —
higher stratum, which has maintained certain standards of homo- —
“ geneous breeding, ceases to be true to its pedigree and intermingles
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with the mongrels.
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This principle is the source of a slow but constant regeneration
whereby all the poison which has invaded
the racial body
is
_ gradually eliminated so long as there still remains a fundamental
stock of pure racial elements which resists further cross-breeding.
Such a process may set in automatically among those people 4
where a strong racial instinct has remained.
Among such people
we may count those elements which, for some particular cause such
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as coercion, have been thrown out of the normal way of reproduc-—
te
tion along strict racial lines.
As soon as this compulsion ceases, that
part of the race which has remained intact will tend to marry with
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its own kind and thus impede further intermingling.
Then the
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mongrels recede quite naturally into the background unless their
numbers had increased so much as to be able to withstand all serious
resistance from those elements which had preserved the purity of _
their race.
When men have lost their natural instincts and ignore the
obligations imposed on them by nature, then there is no hope that
nature will correct the loss that has been caused, until recognition
of the lost instincts has been restored.
Then the task of bringing
back what has been lost will have to be accomplished.
But there is
serious danger that those who have once become blind in this respect . 4
will continue more and more to break down racial barriers and
finally lose the last remnants of what is best in them.
What then
remains is nothing but a uniform mish-mash, which seems to be the
dream of our fine Utopians.
But that mish-mash would soon banish
all ideals from the world.
Certainly a great herd could thus be
Our contemporary generation of weaklings will naturally decry
such a policy and whine and complain about it as an encroachment
: on the most sacred of human rights.
But there is only one right
that is sacrosanct and this right is at the same time a most sacred
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_ duty.
This right and obligation are: that the purity of the racial
blood should be guarded, so that the best types of human beings
may be preserved and that thus we should render possible a more
noble development of humanity itself.
_ A folk-State should in the first place raise matrimony from the
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level of being a constant scandal to the race.
The State should
consecrate it as an institution which is called upon to produce
creatures made in the likeness of the Lord and not create monsters
that are a mixture of man and ape.
The protest which is put
forward in the name of humanity does not fit the mouth of a
generation
that makes
it possible
for
the
most
depraved
degenerates to propagate themselves, thereby imposing unspeakable
suffering on their own products and their contemporaries, while, on
the other hand, contraceptives are permitted and sold in every drug
store and even by street hawkers, so that babies should not be
born even among the healthiest of our people.
In this present
State of ours, whose function it is to be the guardian of peace and
good order, our national bourgeoisie look upon it as a crime to
While our European people, God
be praised and thanked, are left to become the victims of moral a
depravity, the pious missionary goes out to Central Africa and estab-
lishes missionary stations for negroes.
Finally, sound and healthy
though primitive and backward people will be transformed, under _
_
the name of our ‘higher civilization,’ into a motley of lazy and
brutalized mongrels.
It would better accord with noble human aspirations if our two —
Christian denominations would cease to bother the negroes with
their preaching, which the negroes do not want and do not under-
stand.
It would be better if they left this work alone and if, in
its stead, they tried to teach people in Europe, kindly and seriously,
that it is much more pleasing to God if a couple that is not of healthy
stock were to show loving kindness to some poor orphan and become
a father and mother to him, rather than give life to a sickly child
that will be a cause of suffering and unhappiness to all.
In this field the People’s State will have to repair the damage
that arises from the fact that the problem is at present neglected
by all the various parties concerned.
It will be the task of the
People’s State to make the race the centre of the life of the com-
munity.
It must make sure that the purity of the racial strain will
be preserved.
It must proclaim the truth that the child is the most
valuable possession a people can have.
It must see to it that only
those who are healthy shall beget children; that there is only one
infamy, namely, for parents that are ill or show hereditary defects to
bring children into the world and that in such cases it is a high
honour to refrain from doing so.
But, on the other hand, it must
be considered
as reprehensible conduct
to refrain from giving
healthy children to the nation.
In this matter the State must
assert itself as the trustee of a millennial future, in face of which
the egotistic desires of the individual count for nothing and will
have to give way before the ruling of the State.
In order to fulfil
this duty in a practical manner the State will have to avail itself
of modern medical discoveries.
It must proclaim as unfit for pro-
creation all those who are inflicted with some visible hereditary
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disease or are the carriers of it; and practical measures must be
adopted to have such people rendered sterile.
On the other hand,
provision must be made for the normally fertile woman so that she
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will not be restricted in child-bearing through the financial and
economic system operating in a political regime that looks upon
the blessing of having children as a curse to their parents.
The
State will have to abolish the cowardly and even criminal indiffer-
ence with which the problem of social amenities for large families
et that it is a crime
and a disgrace to make this affliction all the worse by passing on
disease and defects to innocent creatures, out of mere egotism.
And the State must also teach the people that it is an expression
of a really noble nature and that it is a humanitarian act worthy
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of admiration if a person who innocently suffers from hereditary
disease refrains from having a child of his own but gives his love |
and affection to some unknown child who, through its health,
Promises to become a robust member of a healthy community.
In accomplishing such an educational task the State integrates its”
function by this activity in the moral sphere.
It must act on this
principle without paying any attention to the question of whether
its conduct will be understood or misconstrued, blamed or praised.
If for a period of only 600 years those individuals would be
sterilized who are physically degenerate or mentally diseased,
humanity would not only be delivered from an immense misfor-
tune but also restored to a state of general health such as we at
present can hardly imagine.
If the fecundity
of the healthy portion
of the nation should be made a practical matter in a conscientious
and methodical way, we should have at least the beginnings of a -
race from which all those germs would be eliminated which are
to-day the cause of our moral and physical decadence.
If a people
and a State take this course to develop that nucleus of the nation
which is most valuable from the racial standpoint and thus increase
its fecundity, the people as a whole will subsequently enjoy that
Most precious of gifts which consists in a racial quality fashioned on
truly noble lines,
To achieve this the State should first of all not leave the coloniza-
tion of newly acquired territory to a haphazard policy but should
have it carried out under the guidance of definite principles.
Specially competent committees ought to issue certificates to indi-
viduals entitling them to engage in colonization work, and these
certificates should guarantee the racial purity of the individuals in
question.
In this way frontier colonies could gradually be founded
whose inhabitants would be of the purest racial stock, and hence
would possess the best qualities of the race.
Such colonies would
be a valuable asset to the whole nation.
Their development would
be a source of joy and confidence and pride to each citizen of the
make procreation impossible for syphilitics and those who suffer
from tuberculosis or other hereditary diseases, also cripples and
imbeciles.
But the practical prevention of procreation among
millions of our very best people is not considered as an evil, nor does
it offend against the noble morality of this social class but rather
encourages their short-sightedness and mental laziness.
For other-
wise they would at least stir their brains to find an answer to the
question of how to create conditions for the feeding and maintain-
ing of those future beings who will be the healthy representatives
of our nation and must also provide the conditions on which the
generation that is to follow them will have to support itself and live.
How devoid of ideals and how ignoble is the whole con-
temporary system!
The fact that the churches join in committing
this sin against the image of God, even though they continue
to emphasize the dignity of that image, is quite in keeping with
their present activities.
They talk about the Spirit, but they
allow man,
as the embodiment of the Spirit, to degenerate to
the proletarian level.
Then they look on with amazement when
The Weltanschauung which bases the State on the raci I
ide
must finally succeed in bringing about a nobler era, in which men —
will no longer pay exclusive attention to breeding and rearing
- pedigree dogs and horses and cats, but will endeavour to improve ~
the breed of the human race itself.
‘That will be an era of silence 3
and renunciation for one class of people, while the others will give _
their gifts and make their sacrifices joyfully.
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That such a mentality may be possible cannot be denied ina
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world where hundreds and thousands accept the principle of celibacy
from their own choice, without being obliged or pledged to do ‘
so
by anything except an ecclesiastical precept.
Why should it not
be possible to induce people to make this sacrifice if, instead of ©
such a precept, they were simply told that they ought to put an —
end to this truly original sin of racial corruption which is steadily
being passed on from one generation to another.
And, further,
they ought to be brought to realize that it is their bounden duty
_
_to give to the Almighty Creator beings such as He himself made
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to His own image.
Naturally, our wretched army of contemporary philistines will :
not understand these things.
They will ridicule them or shrug
their round shoulders and groan out their everlasting excuses: “Of
course it is a fine thing, but the pity is that it cannot be carried out.”
And we reply : “With you indeed it cannot be done, for your world
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is incapable of such an idea.
You know only one anxiety and that
is for your own personal existence.
You have one God, and that
is your money.
We do not turn to you, however, for help but to
the great army of those who are too poor to consider their personal
existence as the highest good on earth.
They do not place their
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trust in money but in other gods, into whose hands they confide
their lives.
Above all we turn to the vast army of our German
youth.
They are coming to maturity in a great epoch, and they
will fight against the evils which were due to the laziness and
indifference of their fathers.”
Either the German youth will one
i
day create a new State founded on the racial idea or they will be
the last witnesses of the complete breakdown and death of the
bourgeois world.
For if a generation suffers from defects which it recognizes
and even admits and is nevertheless quite pleased with itself, as
the bourgeois world is to-day, resorting to the cheap excuse that
nothing can be done to remedy the situation, then such a generation
is doomed to disaster.
A marked characteristic of our bourgeois
world is that they no longer can deny the evil conditions that exist.
They have to admit that there is much which is foul and wrong;
but they are not able to make up their minds to fight against that
evil, which would mean putting forth the energy to mobilize the
Man should take care not to have too low an estimate of the
power of an ideal.
If there are some who may feel disheartened
over the present conditions, and if they happen to have served as
soldiers, 1 would remind them of the time when their heroism was
the most convincing example of the power inherent in ideal
motives.
It was not preoccupation about their daily bread that led
men to sacrifice their lives, but the love of their country, the faith
which they had in its greatness, and an all round feeling for the
honour of the nation.
Only after the German people had become
estranged from these ideals, to follow the material promises offered
by the Revolution, only after they threw away their arms to take
up the rucksack, only then—instead of entering an earthly paradise
—did they sink into the purgatory of universal contempt and at
the sarne time universal want.
That is why we must face the calculators of the materialist
Republic with faith in an idealist Reich.
