BY ARTHUR DE GOBINEAU
TRANSLATED BY ADRIAN COLLINS, M.A.
INTRODUCTION BY DR. OSCAR LEVY, EDITOR OF THE AUTHORISED ENGLISH VERSION OF NIETZSCHE’S WORKS
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
LONDON MCMXV
London William Heinemann 1915
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| 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] |