Chapter I: Introduction: vii

FROM THE AUTHOR’S DEDICATION xi

AUTHOR’S PREFACE xv

I. THE MORTAL DISEASE OF CIVILIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES PROCEEDS
FROM GENERAL CAUSES COMMON TO THEM ALL 1

II. FANATICISM, LUXURY, CORRUPTION OF MORALS, AND IRRELIGION DO
NOT NECESSARILY LEAD TO THE FALL OF SOCIETIES 7

III. THE RELATIVE MERIT OF GOVERNMENTS HAS NO INFLUENCE ON THE
LENGTH OF A NATION’S LIFE 19

IV. THE MEANING OF THE WORD “DEGENERATION”; THE MIXTURE OF
RACIAL ELEMENTS; HOW SOCIETIES ARE FORMED AND BROKEN UP 23

V. RACIAL INEQUALITY IS NOT THE RESULT OF INSTITUTIONS 36

VI. NATIONS, WHETHER PROGRESSING OR STAGNATING ARE INDEPENDENT
OF THE REGIONS IN WHICH THEY LIVE 54

VII. CHRISTIANITY NEITHER CREATES NOR CHANGES THE CAPACITY FOR
CIVILIZATION 63

VIII. DEFINITION OF THE WORD “CIVILIZATION”; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
HAS A TWOFOLD ORIGIN 77

IX. DEFINITION OF THE WORD “CIVILIZATION” (_continued_);
DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF CIVILIZED SOCIETIES; OUR
CIVILIZATION IS NOT SUPERIOR TO THOSE WHICH HAVE GONE
BEFORE 89

X. SOME ANTHROPOLOGISTS REGARD MAN AS HAVING A MULTIPLE ORIGIN 106

XI. RACIAL DIFFERENCES ARE PERMANENT 117

XII. HOW THE RACES WERE PHYSIOLOGICALLY SEPARATED, AND THE
DIFFERENT VARIETIES FORMED BY THEIR INTER-MIXTURE. THEY
ARE UNEQUAL IN STRENGTH AND BEAUTY 141

XIII. THE HUMAN RACES ARE INTELLECTUALLY UNEQUAL; MANKIND IS NOT
CAPABLE OF INFINITE PROGRESS 154

XIV. PROOF OF THE INTELLECTUAL INEQUALITY OF RACES (_continued_).
DIFFERENT CIVILIZATIONS ARE MUTUALLY REPULSIVE; HYBRID
RACES HAVE EQUALLY HYBRID CIVILIZATIONS 168

XV. THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES ARE UNEQUAL, AND CORRESPOND
PERFECTLY IN RELATIVE MERIT TO THE RACES THAT USE THEM 182

XVI. RECAPITULATION; THE RESPECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THREE
GREAT RACES; THE SUPERIORITY OF THE WHITE TYPE, AND,
WITHIN THIS TYPE, OF THE ARYAN FAMILY 205