Yes, We Can And Will Create A Pure Race
That all the outstanding races of the Earth have undergone considerable mixing before the dawn of history, I have repeatedly allowed. Indeed, I have not only recognized but stressed that before any people could have sufficient genetic diversity to provide the rich store of varied capacities necessary for achievement of greatness, some mixing, a moderate degree of judicious mixing, was necessary. But all this, the pros and cons of which I went into thoroughly in my Chapters IX, XI, XVI and XVII, is aside from my present point. My point is, first, that despite either more or less mixing in their past, the great creative, history-making peoples of the ancient world were not racial hodgepodges, such as the American people today have become. They all tended to hold the outsider and the alien in abhorrence, and by long inbreeding they had already become relatively pure in their race.
It seems certain that the ancient Greeks, who in their most creative period still held sternly aloof from marrying aliens, must have struck any objective observer by the similarity and distinctiveness of their appearance when contrasted with other peoples. How inbreeding, both in the Greeks and in the Persians, had preserved the original type from which both were sprung is strikingly revealed in “The Dying Persian” whose features and build could easily have been mistaken for those of an Athenian. And Tacitus, in his Germania, noted that the Germani (the Germans) of his time (first century A.D.)—
“. . .have hitherto subsisted without intermarrying with other nations, a pure unmixed, and independent race, unlike any other people, all bearing the marks of a distinct national character. Hence, what is very remarkable in such prodigious numbers, a family likeness throughout the nation: the same form and feature, stern blue eyes, ruddy hair, their bodies large and robust . . proof against cold and hunger.” Emphasis added)
In any case, my desire at the moment is not so much to repeat what I have been saying all through this book—namely, that solidarity and homogeneity, and therefore pure race, are essential for any people that would aspire to greatness, to those moral and spiritual values that alone can lead to true human greatness or even to long survival, but rather and above all to stress that where pure race has been lost it must be created—and that it can be created. Today, the means for achieving it are positively and exactly known. It needs greatly to be brought to the attention of our people that there was no such thing as a pure breed of horses (or of cows, or dogs, or any other domesticated animal, for that matter) until man created it.
Chamberlain points out that the “most physiologically uniform and noblest race of animals in the world, the English thoroughbred,” was deliberately produced by the human application of ascertained principles of breeding. And Nietzsche, who is so often quoted for his warning against “the mendacious pure race swindle,” nevertheless pointed out the observed evil consequences, physical, psychological and social, of indiscriminate racial crossing, and stressed both the practicability and the importance of systematically purifying race. “Purified races,” he said “have always become stronger and more beautiful. The Greeks may serve us as a model of purified race and culture! And it is to be hoped that some day a pure European race and culture may arise.”
-William Gayley Simpson “Which Way Western Man”