part of our best blood was thus kept pure, its racial quality was
not debased.
A complete assimilation of all our racial elements would
certainly have brought about a homogeneous national organism;
but, as has been proved in the case of every racial mixture, it
would have been less capable of creating a civilization than by
keeping intact its best original elements. A benefit which results
from the fact that there was no allround assimilation is to be
seen in that even now we have large groups of German Nordic
people within our national organization, and that their blood has
not been mixed with the blood of other races. We must look upon
this as our most valuable treasure for the sake of the future.
During that dark period of absolute ignorance in regard to all
racial laws, when each individual was considered to be on a par
with every other, there could be no clear appreciation of the
difference between the various fundamental racial characteristics.
We know today that a complete assimilation of all the various
elements which constitute the national being might have resulted
in giving us a larger share of external power: but, on the other
hand, the highest of human aims would not have been attained,
because the only kind of people which fate has obviously chosen
to bring about this perfection would have been lost in such a
general mixture of races which would constitute such a racial
amalgamation.
But what has been prevented by a friendly Destiny, without any
assistance on our part, must now be reconsidered and utilized in
the light of our new knowledge.
He who talks of the German people as having a mission to fulfil
on this earth must know that this cannot be fulfilled except by the
building up of a State whose highest purpose is to preserve and
promote those nobler elements of our race and of the whole of
mankind which have remained unimpaired.
Thus for the first time a high inner purpose is accredited to the
State. In face of the ridiculous phrase that the State should do no
more than act as the guardian of public order and tranquillity, so
that everybody can peacefully dupe everybody else, it is given a
very high mission indeed to preserve and encourage the highest
type of humanity which a beneficent Creator has bestowed on
this earth. Out of a dead mechanism which claims to be an end in
itself a living organism shall arise which has to serve one
purpose exclusively: and that, indeed, a purpose which belongs
to a higher order of ideas.
As a State the German Reich shall include all Germans. Its task
is not only to gather in and foster the most valuable sections of
our people but to lead them slowly and surely to a dominant
position in the world.
Thus a period of stagnation is superseded by a period of effort.
And here, as in every other sphere, the proverb holds good that to
rest is to rust; and furthermore the proverb that victory will
always be won by him who attacks. The higher the final goal
which we strive to reach, and the less it be understood at the time
by the broad masses, the more magnificent will be its success.
That is what the lesson of history teaches. And the achievement
will be all the more significant if the end is conceived in the right
way and the fight carried through with unswerving persistence.
Many of the officials who direct the affairs of State nowadays
may find it easier to work for the maintenance of the present
order than to fight for a new one. They will find it more
comfortable to look upon the State as a mechanism, whose
purpose is its own preservation, and to say that their lives 'belong
to the State' as if anything that grew from the inner life of the
nation can logically serve anything but the national being, and as
if man could be made for anything else than for his fellow
beings. Naturally, it is easier, as I have said, to consider the
authority of the State as nothing but the formal mechanism of an
organization, rather than as the sovereign incarnation of a
people's instinct for selfpreservation on this earth. For these
weak minds the State and the authority of the State is nothing but
an aim in itself, while for us it is an effective weapon in the
service of the great and eternal struggle for existence, a weapon
which everyone must adopt, not because it is a mere formal
mechanism, but because it is the main expression of our common
will to exist.
Therefore, in the fight for our new idea, which conforms
completely to the primal meaning of life, we shall find only a
small number of comrades in a social order which has become
decrepit not only physically but mentally also. From these strata
of our population only a few exceptional people will join our
ranks, only those few old people whose hearts have remained
young and whose courage is still vigorous, but not those who
consider it their duty to maintain the state of affairs that exists.
Against us we have the innumerable army of all those who are
lazyminded and indifferent rather than evil, and those whose
selfinterest leads them to uphold the present state of affairs. On
the apparent hopelessness of our great struggle is based the
magnitude of our task and the possibilities of success. A battle
cry which from the very start will scare off all the petty spirits, or
at least discourage them, will become the signal for a rally of all
those temperaments that are of the real fighting metal. And it
must be clearly recognized that if a highly energetic and active
body of men emerge from a nation and unite in the fight for one
goal, thereby ultimately rising above the inert masses of the
people, this small percentage will become masters of the whole.
World history is made by minorities if these numerical minorities
represent in themselves the will and energy and initiative of the
people as a whole.
What seems an obstacle to many persons is really a preliminary
condition of our victory. Just because our task is so great and
because so many difficulties have to be overcome, the highest
probability is that only the best kind of protagonists will join our
ranks. This selection is the guarantee of our success.
Nature generally takes certain measures to correct the effect
which racial mixture produces in life. She is not much in favour
of the mongrel. The later products of crossbreeding have to
suffer bitterly, especially the third, fourth and fifth generations.
Not only are they deprived of the higher qualities that belonged
to the parents who participated in the first mixture, but they also
lack definite willpower and vigorous vital energies owing to the
lack of harmony in the quality of their blood. At all critical
moments in which a person of pure racial blood makes correct
decisions, that is to say, decisions that are coherent and uniform,
the person of mixed blood will become confused and take
measures that are incoherent. Hence we see that a person of
mixed blood is not only relatively inferior to a person of pure
blood, but is also doomed to become extinct more rapidly. In
innumerable cases wherein the pure race holds its ground the
mongrel breaks down. Therein we witness the corrective
provision which Nature adopts. She restricts the possibilities of
procreation, thus impeding the fertility of crossbreeds and
bringing them to extinction.
For instance, if an individual member of a race should mingle his
blood with the member of a superior race the first result would be
a lowering of the racial level, and furthermore the descendants of
this crossbreeding would be weaker than those of the people
around them who had maintained their blood unadulterated.
Where no new blood from the superior race enters the racial
stream of the mongrels, and where those mongrels continue to
crossbreed among themselves, the latter will either die out
because they have insufficient powers of resistance, which is
Nature's wise provision, or in the course of many thousands of
years they will form a new mongrel race in which the original
elements will become so wholly mixed through this millennial
crossing that traces of the original elements will be no longer
recognizable. And thus a new people would be developed which
possessed a certain resistance capacity of the herd type, but its
intellectual value and its cultural significance would be
essentially inferior to those which the first crossbreeds
possessed. But even in this last case the mongrel product would
succumb in the mutual struggle for existence with a higher racial
group that had maintained its blood unmixed. The herd solidarity
which this mongrel race had developed through thousands of
years will not be equal to the struggle. And this is because it
would lack elasticity and constructive capacity to prevail over a
race of homogeneous blood that was mentally and culturally
superior.
Therewith we may lay down the following principle as valid:
every racial mixture leads, of necessity, sooner or later to the
downfall of the mongrel product, provided the higher racial strata
of this crossbreed 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 homogeneous breeding, ceases to be true to its pedigree and
intermingles with the mongrels.
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 crossbreeding.
Such a process may set in automatically among those people
where a strong racial instinct has remained. Among such people
we may count those elements which, for some particular cause
such as coercion, have been thrown out of the normal way of
reproduction along strict racial lines. As soon as this compulsion
ceases, that part of the race which has remained intact will tend
to marry with its own kind and thus impede further
intermingling. Then the 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
become blind once in this respect 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
mishmash, which seems to be the dream of our fine Utopians.
But that mishmash would soon banish all ideals from the world.
Certainly a great herd could thus be formed. One can breed a
herd of animals; but from a mixture of this kind men such as
have created and founded civilizations would not be produced.
The mission of humanity might then be considered at an end.
Those who do not wish that the earth should fall into such a
condition must realize that it is the task of the German State in
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