"The word degenerate, when applied to a people, means that the people no longer has the same intrinsic value as it had before, because it has no longer the same blood in its veins, continual adulterations having gradually affected the quality of that blood....in fact, the man of a decadent time, the degenerate man properly so-called, is a different being from the racial point of view, from the heroes of the great ages. [...] I think I am right in concluding that the human race in all its branches has a secret repulsion from the crossing of blood"
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Arthur de Gobineau (1855) Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races.
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Degeneration
was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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