"All historically great races and nations have been produced by mixing; but wherever the difference of type is too great to be bridged over, then we have mongrels. That is the case here. The crossing between Bedouin and Syrian was — from an anatomical point of view — probably worse than that between Spaniard and South American Indian."
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
1855 – 1927
englisch-deutscher Schriftsteller und Kulturphilosoph
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