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Lovecraft
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author. He is best known for his short stories, which were
highly influential in the nascent science fiction and horror genres.
Lovecrafts views on race do not fit easily into any 2st century category. Lovecraft believed that the
!eutonic, Anglo"#a$on races %which he sometimes called Aryans& were superior, though he saw other
races, such as the 'talians and the (hinese, as having different but valuable cultures, that should be
preserved by keeping them separate. )hile Lovecraft thought America could absorb a small number of
non"Aryans, provided they adopted the dominant culture, he saw largescale immigration as a disaster
and antithetical to progress.
Lovecraft viewed blacks and Australian aborigines as biologically inferior to other races. He believed
they lacked the inborn capacity to create any sort of civili*ation. He viewed the +color line, with
approval, since it prevented +mongreli*ation,, i.e. mating between blacks and whites.
!hough he briefly married a -ewish woman, Lovecraft wrote about being repulsed by -ews and -ewish
culture. He lived to see the rise of Adolf Hitler, though not the second )orld )ar, and was highly
critical of .a*i race theory, which he considered crude. 't is not clear from his writings whether he
viewed -ews as /rientals %Asiatics& or 0uropeans1 though he occasionally refers to them as white, he
also laments their /riental characteristics.
#ome of Lovecrafts letters made liberal use of the ampersand %2& instead of the word 3and. ' have
changed the ampersand to 3and when it makes for easier reading.
Descended from the race that produced Mendelssohn, [Charles D. Isaacson] is himself a musician of no
ordinary talent, whilst as a man of literature he is worthy of comparison with his co-religionists Moses
Mende [!] and Isaac D"Israeli. #ut the $ery spirituality which gi$es ele$ation to the %emitic mind
partially unfits it for the consideration of tastes and trends in &ryan thought and writings, hence it is not
surprising that he is a radical of the e'tremest sort. (()In a Ma*or +ey,) from ,he Conser$ati$e -ol. I,
.o. /, 0102.
Mr. Isaacson"s $iews on race pre*udice, as outlined in his 4inor 5ey, are too su3*ecti$e to 3e impartial.
4e has perhaps resented the more or less open a$ersion to the children of Isreal which has e$er
per$aded Christendom, yet a man of his perspicuity should 3e a3le to distinguish this illi3eral feeling, a
religious and social animosity of one white race toward another white and e5ually intellectual race,
from the natural and scientifically *ust sentiment which 6eeps the &frican 3lac6 from contaminating the
Caucasian population of the 7nited %tates. ,he negro is fundamentally the 3iological inferior of all
8hite and e$en Mongolian races, and the .orthern people must occasionally 3e reminded of the
danger which they incur in admitting him too freely to the pri$ileges of society and go$ernment. ((
i3id.
& 9ew is capa3le of infinite nastiness when he see6s re$enge, : I 3elie$e I shall ha$e ample grounds
for ma6ing [Isaacson] the hero of a spirited Dunciad. I can almost predict his line of attac6. 4e will call
me superficial, crude, 3ar3aric in thought, imperfect in education, offensi$ely arrogant : 3igoted, filled
with $enomous pre*udice, wanting in good taste, :c. :c. :c. #ut what I can and will say in reply is
also $iolent : comprehensi$e. 4e will as6 why I am an ad$ocate of war, yet am not at this moment in
the #ritish army. I shall not stoop to e'plain that I am an in$alid who would certainly 3e fighting under
the 7nion 9ac6 if a3le, 3ut shall ha$e plenty to say a3out the decadent cowardice responsi3le for the
propagation of peace ideas. ;eace is the ideal of a dying nation< a 3ro6en race. Isaacson 3elongs to a
stoc6 wholly 3ro6en : emasculated 3y two thousand years of cringing at the feet of &ryan masters. #ut
I, than6 the =ods, am an &ryan, : can re*oice in the glorious $ictory of ,. >la$ius -espasianus, under
whose legions the 9ewish race : their capital were trodden out of national e'istence? I am an anti-
%emitic 3y nature, 3ut thought I had concealed my pre*udice in my remar6s concerning Isaacson. I
showed him e$ery consideration in my article, carefully saying that I attac6ed not the man, 3ut the
ideas. 4owe$er, if 9erusalem wishes to start trou3le, he will find in me a new ,itus, eager to inscri3e on
my eagles the triumphant legend I-D&@& C&;,&? I might here remar6 that my anti-%emitism is not
entirely due to 3lind pre*udice. ,he 9ews are fundamentally Arientals, whilst the rising ci$iliation of
the world is 8esternB,eutonicB&nglo-%a'on. ,he struggle 3etween the @ast : the 8est dates 3ac6
to Marathon : %alamis, : it is the 8est which has e$er represented progress : superior culture. ,he
9ew is an ad$erse influence, since he insidiously degrades or Arientalies our ro3ust &ryan ci$iliation.
,he intellect of the race is indisputa3ly great, 3ut its nature is not such that it may 3e safely employed
in forming 8estern political : social ideas. Appressi$e as it seems, the 9ew must 3e muled. ((from a
letter written &ugust 0C, 0102.
It is an ironical truth, that those foreigners who most desire to 3ecome thorough &mericans, are
generally those who are least fitted for amalgamation out of re$erence to his $aterland< 3ut the greasy
9ew from Dussia impudently assumes a pseudo-&mericanism to which his race does not entitle him. In
considering matters of this sort, the student must free himself from tons of stic6y sentimentalism a3out
E3road humanitarian ideals), E&merica the land of e5uality), Edown with the race pre*udice), and other
nonsense of li6e tenor. ,he 5uestion is< do &mericans desire to remain a $igorous, clean moraled
,eutonic-Celtic people< or do they desire to transform their country into a sordid, amorphous chaos of
degradation and hy3ridism li6e imperial Dome! 9ews, Italians, %la$s and their li6e must somehow 3e
segregated or gotten rid of 3efore they rise to taint the 3etter classes. ((from a letter written Acto3er,
010F.
In 01CG-H I had pri$ate tutors, 3ut in the autumn of 01CH I mingled with the world once moreBto the
e'tent of entering 4ope %t. 4igh %chool. 4ere I was confronted for the first time with
cosmopolitanism. %later &$enue school is pu3lic, 3ut it is rather a neigh3orhood affair, with most of its
pupils drawn from the old families. #ut 4ope %treet is near enough to the E.orth @nd) to ha$e a
considera3le 9ewish attendance. It was there that I formed my ineradica3le a$ersion to the %emitic race.
,he 9ews were 3rilliant in their classesBcalculatingly : schemingly 3rilliantB3ut their ideals were
sordid : their manners course. I 3ecame rather well 6nown as anti-%emitic 3efore I had 3een at 4ope
%treet many days. ((from a letter written .o$em3er 0F, 0102.
It is a mista6e to allow 9ews to mingle with &ryans as social e5uals. I ha$e ne$er 3een forced to do this,
: at high school I drew the colour line at 9ews as well as negroes, though of course there is no racial
comparison 3etween the two classes of undesira3les. ((from a letter written .o$em3er /2, 0102.
%ometimes I thin6 of racial com3inations as chemical reactions< for instance, I 3elie$e that certain
stoc6s ha$e greater assimilati$e powers than others. ,he =allo-#as5ue stoc6 with Iatin infusion, which
constitutes the 3ul6 of the >rench population, is much more recepti$e to alien 3lood than is our colder
and more ,eutonic stoc6. ,hat is, the >rench type seems more easily attaina3le 3y inferiors than is the
straightforward ,eutonic type. ,his is pro3a3ly 3ecause >rance is more mongrelied to start with. Many
eminent >rench ha$e the Israelitish taint without apparent detraction from the Accidentalism of their
mental typeB%arah #ernhart owns the touch of 9udeaBso does 4enri #ernstein, the dramatist. #ut
among @nglish, =ermans, : &mericans, a 9ew is a 9ew, : is in no wise to 3e confounded with the
dominant people amongst whom he dwells. ((i3id.
It is difficult to 3e patient with the political idiots who ad$ocate the relin5uishment of [the ;hillipines]
3y the 7nited %tates, either now or at any future time. ,he mongrel nati$es, in whose 3lood the Malay
strain predominates, are not and will ne$er 3e racially capa3le of maintaining a ci$ilised condition 3y
themsel$es. ((>rom an article in the 7nited &mateur, 9une 010F.
,he instincts that go$erned the @gyptians and the &ssyrians of old, go$ern us as well< and as the
ancients thought, grasped, struggled, and decei$ed, so shall we moderns continue to thin6, grasp,
struggle, and decei$e in our inmost hearts. Change is only superficial and apparent. (()&t the Doot,)
from the 7nited &mateur 0J, num3er F, 9uly 010K.
,he whole 7.%. negro 5uestion is $ery simple. L0M Certainly the negro is $astly the 3iological inferior of
the Caucasian. L/M ,herefore if racial amalgamation were to occur, the net le$el of &merican
ci$ilisation would percepti3ly fall, as in such mongrel nations as Me'ico(: se$eral %outh &merican
near-repu3lics. LGM &malgamation would undou3tedly ta6e place if pre*udice were eradicated,
3eginning with the lowest grades of 9ews : Italians : e$entually wor6ing upward until the whole
country would 3e poisoned, : its culture : progress stunted. LHM ,herefore the much-a3used Ecolour
line) is a self-protecti$e measure of the white &merican people to 6eep the 3lood of their descendants
pure, : the institutions : greatness of their country unimpaired. ,he colour line must 3e maintained in
spite of the ranting : preaching of fanatical : ill-informed philanthropists. ((from a letter written
9anuary 0K, 0101.
,he genius of a few indi$iduals is ne$er an inde' of collecti$e racial capacity. In spite of all the #oo6er
8ashingtons : Dun3ars we can see that the negro as a whole has ne$er made any progress or founded
any culture. 8e cannot *udge a man sociologically 3y his own indi$idual 5ualities< we ha$e the future
to thin6 of. ,wo persons of different races, though e5ual mentally : physically, may ha$e a $itally
different sociological $alue, 3ecause one will certainly produce an incalcula3ly 3etter type of
descendants than the other. 8e must see that the 3est retain social : political supremacy, in order that
our 3est traditions may 3e preser$ed. ,herefore, to me, racial pre*udice is not irrational or
une'plaina3le< nor in any way un*ustifia3le. It has aw6ward phases, 3ut its 3enefits immeasura3ly
outweigh its disad$antages. ((i3id.
E&mericanism) is e'panded &nglo-%a'onism. It is the spirit of @ngland, transplanted to a soil of $ast
e'tent and di$ersity, and nourished for a time under pioneer conditions calculated to increase its
democratic aspects without impairing its fundamental $irtues. It is the spirit of truth, honour, *ustice,
morality, moderation, indi$idualism, conser$ati$e li3erty, magnanimity, toleration, enterprise,
industriousness, and progressBwhich is @nglandBplus the element of e5uality and opportunity caused
3y pioneer settlement. It is the e'pression of the world"s highest race under the most fa$oura3le social,
political, and geographical conditions. ,hose who endea$our to 3elittle the importance of our #ritish
ancestry, are in$ited to consider the other nations of this continent. &ll these are e5ually E&merican) in
e$ery particular, differing only in race-stoc6 and heritage< yet of them all, none sa$e #ritish Canada
will e$en 3ear comparison with us. 8e are great 3ecause we are a part of the great &nglo-%a'on
cultural sphere< a section detached only after a century and a half of hea$y colonisation and @nglish
rule, which ga$e to our land the ineradica3le stamp of #ritish ci$ilisation. (()&mericanism,) 9uly 0101
Most dangerous and fallacious of the se$eral misconceptions of &mericanism is that of the so-called
Emelting-pot) of races and traditions. It is true that this country has recei$ed a $ast influ' of non-
@nglish immigrants who come hither to en*oy without hardship the li3erties which our #ritish ancestors
car$ed out in toil and 3loodshed. It is also true that such of them as 3elong to the ,eutonic and Celtic
races are capa3le of assimilation to our @nglish type and of 3ecoming $alua3le ac5uisitions to the
population. #ut, from this it does not follow that a mi'ture of really alien 3lood or ideas has
accomplished or can accomplish anything 3ut harm. A3ser$ation of @urope shows us the relati$e status
and capa3ility of the se$eral races, and we see that the melting together of @nglish gold and alien 3rass
is not $ery li6ely to produce any alloy superior or e$en e5ual to the original gold. Immigration cannot,
perhaps, 3e cut off altogether, 3ut it should 3e understood that aliens who choose &merica as their
residence must accept the pre$ailing language and culture as their own< and neither try to modify our
institutions, nor to 6eep ali$e their own in our midst. 8e must not, as the greatest man of our age
declared, suffer this nation to 3ecome a Epolyglot 3oarding house.) ((i3id.
Af what use is it to please the herd! ,hey are simply coarse animals B for all that is admira3le in man
is the artificial product of special 3reeding. 8e ad$ocate the preser$ation of conditions fa$oura3le to
the growth of 3eautiful things B imposing palaces, 3eautiful cities, elegant literature, resposeful art
and music, and a physically select human type such as only lu'ury and a pure racial strain can produce.
,hus we oppose democracy, if only 3ecause it would retard the de$elopment of a handsome .ordic
3reed. 8e realise that all conceptions of *ustice and ethics are mere pre*udices and illusions B there is
no earthly reason why the masses should not 3e 6ept down for the 3enefit of the strong, since e$ery
man is for himself in the last analysis. ((from a letter written >e3ruary 0C, 01/G.
.othing must distur3 my undiluted @nglishry B =od %a$e ,he +ing? I am naturally a .ordic B a
chal6-white, 3ul6y ,euton of the %candina$ian or .orth-=erman forests B a -i6inga 3erser6 6iller B
a predatory ro$er of 4engist and 4orsa B a con5ueror of Celts and mongrels and founders of @mpires
B a son of the thunders and the arctic winds, and 3rother to the frosts and the auroras B a drin6er of
foemen"s 3lood from new pic6ed s6ulls B a friend of the mountain 3uards and feeder of seacoast
$ultures B a 3lond 3east of eternal snows and froen oceans B a prayer to Adin and ,hor and 8oden
and &lfadur, the raucous shouter of .iffelheim B a comrade of the wol$es, and rider of nightmares B
aye B I spea6 truly B for was I not 3orn with yellow hair and 3lue eyes. ((from a letter written May
G, 01/G.
I certainly hope to see promiscuous immigration permanently curtailed soonB4ea$en 6nows enough
harm has already 3een done 3y the admission of limitless hordes of the ignorant, superstitious, :
3iologically inferior scum of %outhern @urope : 8estern &sia. ((from a letter written Demem3er 0G,
01/2.
Anly a damn fool can e'pect the people of one tradition to feel at ease when their country is flooded
with hordes of foreigners whoBwhether e5ual, superior, or inferior 3iologicallyBare so antipodal in
physical, emotional, and intellectual ma6eup that harmonious coalescence is $irtually impossi3le. ((
from a letter written %eptem3er /J, 01/F.
,he actual indi$idualBapart from a small group of theorists who specialise in this 6ind of feeling and
deri$e certain artificial emotional-imaginati$e satisfactions from it as I do from my Einfinite-
cosmicism)Bcan form no more of a satisfying conception of himself as a mem3er of an hypothetical
3iology-stream than a hen-louse can form satisfying conceptions of himself as a proud unit in the whole
pedicular pageant cat, dog, man, goat, and sand parasites. It all may 3e theoretically soBall men
certainly ha$e a $ague common origin in one or two earlier primate species, while a few isolated
culture-ideas are occasionally passed alongBor ta6en o$er in a more or less gar3led and fragmentary
wayBfrom one group to anotherB3ut, from the point of $iew of the normal mem3er of any e'isting
human group, what the hell of it! It simply doesn"t mean anything. &ll our feelings and loyalties are
3ased on the special instincts and inherited $alues or our immediate racial and cultural groupBta6e
these away, and a3solutely nothing remains for any a$erage person to anchor his sense of direction,
interest, or standards to. ((from a letter written Acto3er GC, 01/1.
8e li$e, always, 3y two codesBthe e'ternal and professed code 3ased on an artificially cosmopolitan
culture< and the inner, real, and moti$ating code, 3ased on the true response of our instincts to their
ha3itual stimuli. It is all $ery well to theorise decorati$ely from the outer codeB3ut we must apply the
inner code when we wish to calculate actual results. %tripping off the mas6 of nineteenth century
euphemism and decorum, we 6now damn well that the human race is di$ided into many groups whose
whole instincti$e conceptions of what is desira3le and what is undesira3le are so antipodally apart in
half to three-5uarters of the affairs of life, that they cannot possi3ly 3e thought of as ha$ing any goal or
complete set of standards in common. &nd to pretend that such a community can e'ist, is to complicate
the matter all the worse. 8e misunderstand all the more, when we feign to understand what we do not
understand. ((i3id.
4alf the tragedies of history are the result of e'pecting one group to conform to the instincti$e
reactions of another, or to cherish its $alues. Ane of the worst e'amples of this is the cringing %emitic
sla$e-cult of Christianity which 3ecame thrust upon our $irile, e3ullient 8estern stoc6 through a series
of grotes5ue historic accidents. A3$iously, we whose instincti$e ideas of e'cellence centre in 3ra$ery,
mastery, and un3ro6enness, and whose ultimate fury of contempt is for the passi$e, non-resistant, sad-
eyed cringer and schemer and haggler, are the least fitted of all races for the har3ourage of a 9udeo-
%yriac faith and standardsBand so the whole course of history pro$ed< with Christianity always a
3urden, handicap, misfit, and unfulfilled moc6ery upon our asserti$e, ,hor-s5uared, 8oden-dri$en
shoulders. 8e ha$e mouthed lying tri3utes to mee6ness and 3rotherhood under =othic roofs whose
$ery pinnacled audacity 3espea6s our detestation of lowliness and our lo$e for power and strength and
3eauty, and ha$e spouted hogsheadfuls of hot air a3out Eprinciple) and ethics, and restraint at the same
time that our ho3nailed 3oots ha$e 6ic6ed around in utter loathing the 3ro6en 9ews whose e'istence is
3ased upon these principles. ,hat is the hypocrisy of the altruistic and humanitarian traditionBtal6ing
and theorising against .ature as she actually wor6s within us. >rom our attempts to assimilate
%emitism we ha$e gained nothing 3ut miseryBand the attempt itself has not succeeded, 3ecause it was
3ased upon impossi3ility. >ar more sensi3le is it to recognise that such an alien tradition has nothing for
people of our 3lood and inheritanceBthat it presupposes goals and instincts which we do not and
cannot possess< e'alting that which we must always despise, and condemning that which we must
always cherish as the supreme criterion of respectBworthiness. ((i3id.
,he 5uestion of relati$e status among different cultures is of wholly minor importanceBit is the
difference which ma6es cultural amalgamation a *o6e. China of the old tradition was pro3a3ly as great
a ci$ilisation as oursBperhaps greater, as #ertrand Dussell thin6sB3ut to fancy that more than a tenth
of the emotional life of China has any meaning for us, is as foolish as to thin6 that more than a tenth of
our emotional life has any meaning for a Chinaman. ((i3id.
.ow the tric6iest catch in the negro pro3lem is that it is really twofold. ,he 3lac6 is $astly inferior.
,here can 3e no 5uestion of this among contemporary and unsentimental 3iologistsBeminent
@uropeans for whom the pre*udice-pro3lem does not e'ist. #ut, it is also a fact that there would 3e a
$ery gra$e and $ery legitimate pro3lem e$en if the negro were the white man"s e5ual. >or the simple
fact is, that two widely dissimilar races, whether e5ual or not, cannot peacea3ly coe'ist in the same
territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in fol6ways of permanent and traditional
personal aloofness. .o normal 3eing feels at ease amidst a population ha$ing $ast elements radically
different from himself in physical aspect and emotional responses. & normal Nan6ee feels li6e a fish out
of water in a crowd of culti$ated 9apanese, e$en though they may 3e his mental and aesthetic superiors<
and the normal 9ap feels the same way in a crowd of Nan6ees. ,his, of course, implies permanent
association. 8e can all $isit e'otic scenes and li6e itBand when we are young and unsophisticated we
usually thin6 we might continue to li6e it as a regular thing. #ut as years pass, the need of old things
and usual influencesBhome faces and home $oicesBgrows stronger and stronger< and we come to see
that mongrelism won"t wor6. ((from a letter written in 9anuary, 01G0.
.aturally, if a race wants to su3mit to the fantastic martyrdom of mongrelisation for an agonising
period of centuries, there will emerge a new composite race and culture whose mem3ers will ha$e
attained a new homogeneityBand therefore a new and satisfying e5uili3rium. #ut who cares to
sacrifice himself for the sa6e of this hypothetical future raceBa race as genuinely foreign and
meaningless to him as the ;eru$ians would ha$e 3een to the =ree6s, or as the ,hi3etans are to
oursel$es! ((i3id.
It is possi3le that the economic dictatorship of the future can wor6 out a diplomatic plan of separate
allocation where3y the 3lac6s may follow a self-contained life of their own, a$oiding the 6eenest
hardships of inferiority through a reduced num3er of points of contact with the whitesO.o one wishes
them any intrinsic harm, and all would re*oice if a way were found to ameliorate such difficulties as
they ha$e without imperilling the structure of the dominant fa3ric. It is a fact, howe$er, that
sentimentalists e'aggerate the woes of the a$erage negro. Millions of them would 3e perfectly content
with a ser$ile status if good physical treatment and amusement could 3e assured them, and they may
yet form a well-managed agricultural peasantry. ,he real pro3lem is the 5uadroon and octoroonBand
still lighter shades. ,heirs is a sorry tragedy, 3ut they will ha$e to find a special place. 8hat we can do
is to discourage the increase of their num3ers 3y placing the hea$iest possi3le penalties on
miscegenation, and arousing as much pu3lic sentiment as possi3le against la' customs and attitudesB
especially in the inland %outhBat present fa$ouring the melancholy and disgusting phenomenon. &ll
told, I thin6 the modern &merican is pretty well on his guard, at last, against racial and cultural
mongrelism. ,here will 3e much deterioration, 3ut the .ordic has a fighting chance of coming out on
top in the end. ((i3id.
8hat we mean 3y .ordic Esuperiority) is simply conformity to those character"e$pectations which are
natural and ineradicable among us. 8e are not so naP$e as to confuse this relati$e Esuperiority) Lwe
ought to call it conformity or suitability insteadM with the a3solute 3iological superiority which we
recognise in the higher races as a whole as distinguished from the negro, australoid, neanderthal,
rhodesian, and other primiti$e human and humanoid types 3oth li$ing and e'tinct. 8e 6now perfectly
well that the Italians e'cel us in the capacity to sa$our life and 3eautyBthat their centres of taste are
3etter de$eloped than oursB3ut they annoy us and fail to fit into our group 3ecause their gland-
functionings and ner$e reactions do not correspond to what our own heritage has made us e'pect. 8e
do not call them inferior, 3ut simply admit that they are different 3eyond the limits of easy mutual
understanding and cultural compati3ility. If we wisely 6ept $ast masses of such foreigners out, we
could regard them with a more impersonal appreciation. It would 3e wholly possi3le, too, to assimilate
a few to our own fa3ric. #ut when we get so damn many of them that a wholesale test of strength
3etwi't their ideals and ours starts up on our soilBwell, forget your idealism for a second, use your
horse-sense, and guess what will happen? ((from a letter written 9anuary 0K, 01G0.
.o anthropologist of standing insists on the uniformly ad$anced e$olution of the .ordic as compared
with that of other Caucasian and Mongolian races. &s a matter of fact, it is freely conceded that the
Mediterranean race turns out a higher percentage of the aesthetically sensiti$e and that the %emitic
groups e'cel in sharp, precise intellectation. It may 3e, too, that the Mongolian e'cels in aesthetic6
capacity and normality of philosophical ad*ustment. 8hat, then, is the secret of pro-.ordicism among
those who hold these $iews! %imply thisBthat ours is a .ordic culture, and that the roots of that
culture are so ine'trica3ly tangled in the national standards, perspecti$es, traditions, memories,
instincts, peculiarities, and physical aspects of the .ordic stream that no other influences are fitted to
mingle in our fa3ric. 8e don"t despise the >rench in 6rance or 7uebec, 3ut we don"t want them
gra33ing our territory and creating foreign islands li6e 8oonsoc6et and >all Di$er. ,he fact of this
uni5ueness of e$ery separate culture-streamBthis dependence of instincti$e li6es and disli6es, natural
methods, unconscious appraisals, etc., etc., on the physical and historical attri3utes of a single raceBis
to o3$ious to 3e ignored e'cept 3y empty theorists. ((i3id.
Ii$ing side 3y side with people whose natural impulses and criteria differ widely from ours, gets in
time to 3e an unendura3le nightmare. 8e may continue to respect them in the a3stract, 3ut what are we
to do when they continue to fail to fulfil our natural conception of personality, meanwhile placing all
their own preferential stresses on matters and ideals largely irrele$ant and sometimes e$en repugnant to
us! &nd don"t forget that we affect alien groups *ust as they affect us. Chinamen thin6 our manners are
3ad, our $oices raucous, our odour nauseous, and our white s6ins and our long noses leprously
repulsi$e. %paniards thin6 us $ulgar, 3rutal, and gauche. 9ews titter and gesture at our mental simplicity,
and honestly thin6 we are sa$age, sadistic6, and childishly hypocritical. 8ell, we thin6 Chinamen are
slimy *a33erers, %paniards oily, sentimental, treacherous, 3ac6ward, and 9ews cringing. 8hat"s the
answer! #imply keep the bulk of all these appro$imately e8ual and highly developed races as far apart
as possible. Iet them study one another as deeply as possi3le, in the interest of that intellectual
understanding which ma6es for appreciation and tolerance. 9ut dont let them mi$ too freely, lest the
clash of deep and intellectually unreachable emotions upset all the appreciation and tolerance which
mental understanding has produced. &nd a3o$e all, don"t get led off on a false trail through o3ser$ing
the easy comraderie of a few cosmopolitan intellectuals and aristocrats in whom similar manners or
special interests ha$e temporarily o$erridden the deep wells of natural feeling ineradica3le from the
3ul6 of each of the di$ergent race or culture groups represented. ((i3id.
,he population [of .ew Nor6 City] is a mongrel herd with repulsi$e Mongoloid 9ews in the $isi3le
ma*ority, and the coarse faces and 3ad manners e$entually come to wear on one so un3eara3ly that one
feels li6e punching e$ery god damn 3astard in sight. ((from a letter written .o$em3er 01, 01G0.
In my opinion the paramount things of e'istence are those mental : imaginati$e landmar6sBlanguage,
culture, traditions, perspecti$es, instincti$e responses to en$ironmental stimuli, :c.Bwhich gi$e to
man6ind the illusion of significance : direction in the cosmic drift. Dace : ci$ilisation are more
important, according to this point of $iew, than concrete political or economic status< so that the
wea6ening of any racial culture 3y political di$ision is to 3e regarded as an un5ualified e$ilB
*ustifia3le only 3y the most e'treme pro$ocation. ((from a letter written >e3ruary /F, 01G/.
,he cardinal $irtue of &sia is its sane and philosophic timelessness. 8hene$er I contemplate that side
of the Ariental nature, with its easy handling of centuries and millennia and its patrician disregard of
momentary stirs and 3ustling, I am tempted to weep at the futile tail-chasing and cloc6-gro$elling of
the hectic6 8est< and to wish that the $irile .ordic had ne$er left his homeland in the 4indoo-+oosh to
merge his fortunes with the restless, fe$er"d, machine-dri$en @uropean chasers after muta3le
nothingness. 4ad we stuc6 to &sia, we might ha$e founded a permanent world-empire of unri$alled
splendour and irresisti3le strengthBas mighty and puissant as Dome, and as sta3le and enduring as
anti5ue &egyptus or deathless %inae. 8e might ha$e 6ill"d off all the slant-eyed yellow fol6, and ha$e
had long camel-trains of sla$es and gold and i$ory and strange crystals sent us as tri3ute 3y the dar6-
eyed $assals and cringers of Ind, of ;ersia, of &fric6, of @uropa, and of the empires Cuco and 7'mal
3eyond the monstrous Di$er Acean. =lory to the &esir? & 3ulloc6 to golden-3earded Adin, and a fat
3uc6 .egro to hammer-wielding ,hor? Iong life to &stahahn, our capital on the NannBfor here we
ha$e fetter"d and manacled ,ime, who wou"d otherwise slay the gods. @heuBthe things that might
ha$e 3een? ((from a letter written &pril, 01G/.
&s for [the .aisQ] much-ad$ertised and hysterically condemned 9ew policy((there is something to 3e
said for one phase of it. Af course it is silly to 3an 9ewish 3oo6s, to impose disa3ilities on =ermanically
cultured 9ews, or to assume that((3iologically spea6ing((a dash of %emitic 3lood unfits one for &ryan
citienship. ,hat is generally conceded. #ut after all, there is a $ery real and $ery gra$e pro3lem in the
presence of an intellectually powerful minority springing from a profoundly alien and emotionally
repulsi$e culture stream, defying assimilation as a whole, and using its 6een mentality and ruthless
enterprise to secure a disproportionate hold on the mental and aesthetic life of a nation. ((from a letter
written May /1, 01GG.
,he 5uestion is whether an enormous &ryan nation, with all the innate feelings and perspecti$es of
&ryan culture, is going to allow its formulated e'pression Lliterary models, art, music etc.M to 3elie and
em3arrass it 3y reflecting an altogether different and sometimes hostile set of feelings and perspecti$es
through gradual and percepti3le %emitic control of all the a$enues of utterance. It is needless to point
out that a nation"s literary and artistic utterance depends $ery largely on those who control the
periodicals, schools, colleges, pu3lishing-houses, galleries, theatres, and so forthBthis control largely
determining what wor6s : types of art shall recei$e preference in presentation to the pu3lic and in
treatment 3y critics, and what attitudes shall recei$e official recommendation. If such control 3e
gradually seied 3y a culture-group profoundly foreign to the natural culture-stream of the nation, the
result is 3ound to 3e tense, aw6ward, : finally intolera3le. ((i3id.
In my opinion, all nations ought to ta6e 5uiet : moderate steps to get such pi$otal forces as education,
large-scale pu3lishing, legal interpretation, criticism, dramatic management, artistic control, etc. into
the hands of those who inherit the respecti$e mainstreams of thought : feeling of those nations.
Chinamen ought not to let &merican missionaries dictate and interpret their policies((and 3y the same
to6en &ryans ought not to lea$e their guidance and interpretation to persons of an irreconcila3le
%emitic culture. Af course, this does not mean that the crudities of 4itlerism are to 3e copied. It is
a3surd to thin6 that a man of complete &ryan culture ought to 3e s5uelched 3ecause he has a 5uarter-
share of %emitic 3lood, or anything li6e that. #ut it is not a3surd to feel that something ought to 3e
done to 6eep e'pression true to the real psychology of the nation in$ol$ed. 8e really face the same
pro3lem in &merica-where the city of .ew Nor6 is $irtually lost to the national fa3ric through its tragic
and all-per$asi$e %emitisation. Aur literature and drama, selected 3y 9ewish producers and great 9ewish
pu3lishing houses li6e +nopf, and feeling the pressure of 9ewish finance and mercantile ad$ertising,
are daily getting farther : farther from the real feelings of the plain &merican in .ew @ngland or
-irginia or +ansas< whilst the profound %emitism of .ew Nor6 is affecting the Eintellectuals) who
floc6 there : creating a flimsy : synthetic 3ody of culture : ideology radically hostile to the $irile
&merican attitude. ((i3id.
#y the wayBit"s hardly accurate to compare the 9ewish with the negro pro3lem. ,he trou3le with the
9ew is not his 3loodBwhich can mi' with ours without disastrous resultsB3ut his persistent :
antagonistic culture"tradition. An the other hand, the negro represents a $astly inferior 3iological
$ariant which must under no circumstances taint our &ryan stoc6. ,he a3solute colour-line as applied
to negroes is 3oth necessary : sensi3le, whereas a similar deadline against 9ews Lthough attempted 3y
4itlerM is ridiculous. ((i3id.
8hile of course the demand for more than C.J2 &ryan 3lood in full citiens is an e'cessi$e one e'cept
where the diluting 3lood is 3iologically inferiorBas with .egroes and &ustraloidsBit remains a fact
that many modern nations need to ta6e steps to preser$e the integrity of their own nati$e cultures
against shrewd and pushing alien influences. Ane must $iew such pro3lems realisticallyBwithout
patriotic sentimentality li6e 4itler"s on one hand, and without idealistic sentimentality on the other
hand. Certainly, a dash of alien 3lood of a superior race Lamong which a large section of 9ews as well
as Mongols must 3e includedM does not harm another superior stoc6 so long as the culture is
unimpaired. #ut that"s where the ru3 comes. 8hen the alien element is strong or shrewd enough to
menace the purity of the culture amidst which it parasitically lodges, it is time to do something. ((from
a letter written 9une 0/, 01GG.
[&]ll these newspaper discussions of recent months miss the one great point of the age-long and
ineradica3le 9ew-&ryan line of clea$age. It isn"t religionBall religion is a negligi3le factor today. It is
only slightly raceBhalf the 9ews in e'istence are of $ery superior stoc6, as their a3ility to undermine
our culture shews< and only a fraction are more physically repulsi$e than many races whom we hate
less. ,he real, impassi3le 3arrier is cultural. Aur whole system of $alues differs utterly and
irreconcila3ly from the 9ewish system, e$en though Land this is what o3scures the real pro3lemM our
a3surd pretence at har3ouring the silly, alien, decadent 9ewish 3y-product called Christianity ma6es us
pretend to endourse the 4e3rew sla$e-psychology. ,he 9ew is a worshipper of the sort of intellectual-
ethical ad*ustment which his superstitious ancestors interpreted as cosmic Erighteousness). 4is supreme
test of $alue is the degree of perfection of this ad*ustmentBto other things he is relati$ely indifferent.
8e are &ryan pagans 3y heritage, and our deep, instincti$e code of ultimate $alues is completely
antipodal to the 9ew"s. ,wenty centuries of fla33y Christian fa6ery ha$e not succeeded in changing our
real natures one *ot. Aur code is not that of hair-splitting old sla$e-women. 8e are menBfree menB
and the one sole thing that supremely matters to us is the maintenance of our own un3ro6en freedom
and dominance. In our hearts(whate$er our lips sayBour sole definition of a man as distinguished
from a crawling reptile is a person who possesses a ma'imum of freedom of action, who li$es under
the go$ernment he chooses, and who unhesitatingly accepts death in preference to ser$itude. ((i3id.
8hat we can"t forgi$e the 9ew is not the tone of his prayers or the sie of his nose, 3ut the fact that he
is willing to sur$i$e under the conditions he accepts. #eing wea6 may not ha$e 3een his faultB3ut it is
his fault that he is ali$e and not free and dominant. It we were as wea6 as he, and could not fight our
way to self-respect, we would perish utterlyBtaunting our foes, $irile and un3ro6en, as the last man
fell. ((i3id.
In the end, there will ha$e to 3e a separation of the cultural 9ew from the 3ody politic, plus a complete
a3sorptionBwith a3andonment of hereditary traditionsBof thousands of other 9ews. ,hat will call for
concessions on 3oth sidesBthe 9ews will ha$e to realise that they can"t drag their fol6ways into our
national patterns, while we will ha$e to a3andon the tight race-lines of the 4itlerites. ,hat ought not to
3e a hardship either way. ,he 9ews are used to su3ordinate positions, and good go$ernments need
impose no hardships on their unassimila3le faction. &nd on the other sideB&ryan nations ha$e ta6en
on $arying doses of %emitic 3lood in the past L%pain has oceans of it< @ngland and &merica since
Cromwell"s time ha$e a3sor3ed a tric6leM without any unfa$oura3le results whatsoe$er. ((i3id.
.othing 3ut pain and disaster can come from the mingling of 3lac6 and white, and the law ought to aid
in chec6ing this criminal folly. =ranting the negro his full due, he is not the sort of material which can
mi' successfully into the fa3ric of a ci$ilised Caucasian nation. Isolated cases of high-grade hy3rids
pro$e nothing. It is easy to see the ultimate result of the wholesale pollution of highly e$ol$ed 3lood 3y
definitely inferior strains. It happened in ancient @gypt(and made a race of supine fellaheen out of
what was once a no3le stoc6. ((from a letter written 9uly GC, 01GG.
&s for .ew Nor6Bthere is no 5uestion 3ut that its o$erwhelming %emitism has totally remo$ed it from
the &merican stream. Degarding its influence on literary : dramatic e'pressionBit is not so much that
the country is flooded directly with 9ewish authors, as that 9ewish pu3lishers determine *ust which of
our &ryan writers shall achie$e print : position. ,hat means that those of us who least e'press our own
people ha$e the preference. ,aste is insidiously moulded along non-&ryan linesBso that, no matter
how intrinsically good the resulting 3ody of literature may 3e, it is a special, rootless literature which
does not represent us. ((i3id.
&s for 4andsome &dolf [4itler]Bin saying he is sincere, : that there is a certain 3asis 3ehind some
phases of the attitude he represents, I do not mean to imply that his actual progamme is not e'treme,
grotes5ue, : occasionally 3ar3arous. 4is attempt to 3anish ar3itrarily all literature he does not li6e is of
course essentially unci$ilisedBwhile his ethnological theories Las distinguished from any defence of a
purely &ryan cultureM are contrary to the maturest 3eliefs of science. I dou3t if he is actually a 9ew,
thoughBfor that sort of story follows a familiar fol6lore pattern. It would 3e too aptly dramatic if he
actually did represent the group he opposes. ((from a letter written &ugust 0H, 01GG.
-irtually all the great department stores of .ew Nor6 Le'cept 8anama6er"sM are solidly 9ewish e$en
when they decepti$ely retain the names of earlier &ryan owners< : a clear ma*ority of the large shops
of other sorts are, as well. ,hese %emitic merchants are clannish : touchy to the $ery limit, : will
arrange to withdraw all their ad$ertising at once whene$er a newspaper displeases them. &nd, as
Menc6en has pointed out, their grounds of displeasure are limitless. ,hey e$en resent the fre5uent use
of the word E9ew) in the news, so that papers spea6 of E@ast %ide agitators), E#ron' merchants),
EDussian immigrants) :c. Iet any ..N. paper try to refer to these people in the fran6, impartial,
o3*ecti$e way a ;ro$idence or ;itts3urgh or Dichmond paper would, : the whole pac6 of synagogue-
hounds is after itBcalling down the $engeance of hea$en, withdrawing ad$ertising, : cancelling
su3scriptionsBthe latter a 3ig item in a town where 0/G of the population is %emitic in origin :
feelings. ,he result is, that not a paper in .ew Nor6 dares to call its soul its own in dealing with the 9ew
: with social : political 5uestions affecting them. ,he whole press is a3solutely ensla$ed in that
direction, so that on the whole length : 3readth of the city it is impossible to secure any public
American utterance:any frank e$pression of the typical mind 2 opinions of the actual American
people:on a fairly wide 2 potentially important range of topics. Anly 3y reading the outside press :
the national magaines can .ew Nor6ers get any idea of how Americans feel regarding such things as
.aism, the ;alestine 5uestion Lin which, 3y e$ery decent standard, the &ra3s are dead right : 3oth
@ngland : the 9ews intolera3ly wrongM, the &merican immigration policy, : so on. !his is what I mean
3y 9ewish control, : I"m damned if it doesn"t ma6e me see redBin a city which was once a part of the
real &merican fa3ric, : which still e'erts a disproportionately large influence on that fa3ric through its
psychologically impressi$e sie : its dominance 3oth in finance : in $arious opinion-forming
channels Ldrama, pu3lishing, criticism, :c.M. =awd 6nows I ha$e no wish to in*ure any race under the
sun, 3ut I do thin6 that something ought to 3e done to free &merican e'pression from the control of any
element which see6s to curtail it, distort it, or remodel it in any direction other than its natural course.
((from a letter written .o$em3er K, 01GG.
In general, I thin6 any nation ought to 6eep close to its original dominant race-stoc6Bremaining
largely .ordic if it started that way< largely Iatin if it started that way, : so on. Anly in this manner
can comforta3le cultural homogeneity : continuity 3e secured. #ut 4itler"s e'tremes of pure racialism
are a3surd : grotes5ue. -arious race-stoc6s differ in inclinations : aptitudes, 3ut of all of them I
consider only the negro : australoid 3iologically inferior. &gainst these two a rigid colour-line ought to
e'ist. ((from a letter written >e3ruary 0G, 01GH.
It is no no$elty for &ryans to dwell as a minority amidst a larger 3lac6 populationBsuch has 3een the
case in &la3ama : Mississippi for decades, : the upper part of %outh &frica is ha$ing a similar
e'perience. #ut the effect of this condition is generally to heighten rather than rela' the colour-line.
,he white minority adopt desperate : ingenious means to preser$e their Caucasian integrityBresorting
to e'tra-legal measures such as lynching : intimidation when the legal machinery does not sufficiently
protect them. Af course it is unfortunate that such a state of sullen tension has to e'istB3ut anything is
3etter than the mongrelisation which would mean the hopeless deterioration of a great nation. ((from a
letter written .o$em3er //, 01GH.
@$en if some desperate social crisis were to sweep &merica into communism, I dou3t if the racial-
e5uality plan6 of the Mar'ist programme would sur$i$e. #lood is thic6er than doctrineBthe reason the
Dussians can accept an e5uality programme with e5uanimity is that they are already largely
mongrelised with Mongol 3lood, : also that they are not faced with the practical pro3lem of dealing
with $ast hordes of 3eings as widely : utterly a3errant as the negro. Af the complete 3iological
inferiority of the negro there can 3e no 5uestionBhe has anatomical features consistently $arying from
those of other stoc6s, : always in the direction of the lower primates. Moreo$er, he has ne$er
de$eloped a ci$ilisation of his own, despite his ample contact with the $ery earliest white ci$ilisations.
Compare the way the =auls too6 on the highest refinements of Doman culture the moment they were
a3sor3ed into the empire, with the way the negroes remained utterly unaffected 3y the @gyptian culture
which impinged on them for continuously for thousands of years. @5ually inferior(: perhaps e$en
more soBis the &ustralian 3lac6 stoc6, which differs widely from the real negro. ,his race has other
stigmata of primiti$enessBsuch as great .eanderthaloid eye3row-ridges. &nd it is li6ewise incapa3le
of a3sor3ing ci$ilisation. In dealing with these two 3lac6 races, there is only one sound attitude for any
other race L3e it Indian, Malay, ;olynesian, or MongolianM to ta6e(: that is to pre$ent admi'ture as
completely : determinedly as it can 3e pre$ented, through the esta3lishment of a colour-line : the
rigid forcing of all mi'ed offspring 3elow that line. I am in accord with the most $ehement :
$ociferous &la3aman or Mississippian on that point, : it will 3e found that most .ortherners react
similarly when it comes to a practical showdown, no matter how much a3stract e5ualitarian nonsense
they may spout as a result of the a3olitionist tradition inherited from the 0K2C"s. If a Dussian-inspired
communist dictatorship e$er tried to force negro e5uality on the 7. %., there is scant 5uestion 3ut that
the descendants of 8endell ;hillips, Charles %umner, : 8illiam Iloyd =arrison would stand side 3y
side with those of 9efferson Da$is : 9ohn C. Calhoun in fighting its ultimate implications to the death.
((i3id.
Anly an ignorant dolt would attempt to call a Chinese gentlemanBheir to one of the greatest artistic :
philosophical traditions in the worldBan Einferior) of any sortO.: yet there are potent reasons, 3ased
on wide physical, mental, : cultural differences, why great num3ers of the Chinese ought not to mi'
into the Caucasian fa3ric, or $ice $ersa. It is not that one race is any better than any other, 3ut that their
whole respecti$e heritages are so antipodal as to ma6e harmonious ad*ustment impossi3le. Mem3ers of
one race can fit into another only through the complete eradication of their own 3ac6ground-
influences(: e$en then the ad*ustment will always remain uneasy : imperfect if the newcomer"s
physical aspect forms a constant reminder of his outside origin. ,herefore it is wise to discourage all
mi'tures of sharply differentiated racesBthough the colour-line does not need to 3e drawn as strictly as
in the case of the negro, since we 6now that a dash or two of Mongolian or Indian or 4indoo or some
such 3lood will not actually in*ure a white stoc6 3iologically. 9ohn Dandolph of Doano6e was none the
worse off for ha$ing the 3lood of ;ocahontas in his $eins, nor does any >inn or 4ungarian feel li6e a
mongrel 3ecause his stoc6 has a remote : now almost forgotten Mongoloid strain. 8ith the high-grade
alien races we can adopt a policy of fle'i3le common-senseBdiscouraging mi'ture whene$er we can,
3ut not clamping down the 3ars so ruthlessly against e$ery indi$idual of slightly mi'ed ancestry. &s a
matter of fact, most of the psychological race differences which stri6e us so prominently are cultural
rather than biological. If one could ta6e a 9apanese infant, alter his features to the &nglo-%a'on type
through plastic surgery, : place him with an &merican family in #oston for rearingBwithout telling
him that he is not an &mericanBthe chances are that in /C years the result would 3e a typical &merican
youth with $ery few instincts to distinguish him from his pure .ordic college-mates. ,he same is true
of other superior alien races including the 9ewBalthough the .ais persist in acting on a false
3iological conception. If they were wise in their campaign to get rid of 9ewish cultural influences L: a
great deal can 3e said for such a campaign, when the dominance of the &ryan tradition is threatened as
in =ermany : .ew Nor6 CityM, they could not emphasie the separatism of the 9ew 3ut would stri$e to
ma6e him gi$e up his separate culture : lose himself in the =erman people. It wouldn"t hurt =ermany
Bor alter its essential physical typeBto ta6e in all the 9ews it now has. L4owe$er, that wouldn"t wor6
in ;oland or .ew Nor6 City, where the 9ews are of an inferior strain, : so numerous that they would
essentially modify the physical type.M ((i3id.
,he fact is, my instincti$e loyalties and area of interest seem to follow cultural rather than 3iological
linesOa tendency directly opposed to the .ai tri3al ideal. 7ndenia3ly, my own 3lood 6infol6 on the
continent interest me less than my cultural 6infol6Bwhose 3lood di$erges sharply from my own as the
stream recedes in time. ,he northern nationsB3iologically a6in to meBseem foreign and of minor
interest< whilst >rance, Italy, and =reeceBthe successi$e cultural precursors of the &nglo-.orman
ci$ilisation around meBseem close, ancestral, and of $ital personal interest. ,o me the Doman @mpire
will always seem the central incident of human historyBand this perspecti$e cannot 3ut colour L3oth
consciously and unconsciouslyM my national interests and literary appreciations in conne'ion with the
modern world. IncidentallyBthis perspecti$e was 5uite typical of the 0Kth century, to which I am so
ine'trica3ly 3ound. ,he conflicting inclinations and tastes of a composite ci$ilisationBwhere race and
artistic-intellectual heritage spring from different sourcesBform a curious study. Conscious, o3*ecti$e
interests tend to follow the line of culture rather than of race< 3ut inward mental and emotional
processes Lethical concepts and compulsions, social-political preferences, trends of imagination, modes
of e$ery-day li$ing, :cM gra$itate toward the line of race. &n &nglo-&merican can tal6 art and history
and philosophy with a >renchman 3etter than with a =ermanOyet his unconscious ha3its and outloo6
and way of life ma6e him $astly closer to the =erman in practical, e$eryday matters. ((from a letter
written 9une 0G, 01GF.