. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. THE LITERARY REVIEW,. APRIL 2, 1921 Race Theory •'DIE JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KUL- ; By Dr. FitiTZ K^hn. Berlin: Welt Verlag. Revicwcd by A. W Ende AVEAR bcfore the \tar thc writer wai agreeahly lurprised to read in a German book on the Cretan discov- eries of Arthur Evans a very forcefu! refu- tation of the race theory which had bcen io curiously exploited by Teuton stholars in the interest of thcir nationalistic megalo- mania. The anonymou
. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. THE LITERARY REVIEW,. APRIL 2, 1921 Race Theory •'DIE JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KUL- ; By Dr. FitiTZ K^hn. Berlin: Welt Verlag. Revicwcd by A. W Ende AVEAR bcfore the \tar thc writer wai agreeahly lurprised to read in a German book on the Cretan discov- eries of Arthur Evans a very forcefu! refu- tation of the race theory which had bcen io curiously exploited by Teuton stholars in the interest of thcir nationalistic megalo- mania. The anonymous author closed one ohaptcr with thc Statement: Even Mino8, the first good European—Eu- ropa'« first fcon—has for father a Norse god, but has also a Scmiiic nncle: Cadinos. l'his voice in the wilderness of German prc-war literature lias bcen recently en- forced by leveral works by writers of He- brew origin, among theni Dr. Kahns vol- urnc. It is an erudite, yct brightly written work, which in the six chaptcrs cntitlcd Race, The Arian, I'he Teuton, Thc Scinftc, Thc Jevv, and The Cuitnre of the Jews, dis- poses of thc myth of racial purity which the Germans clainicd for themselves and on which they bascd thcir' "right"' to rulc the World, rhc author says in thc first chap- fcr: Race is a j)roduct of envirotiment. All human raccs to-day dcvclopcd through thcir changing fates in thc differcnt environ- rnents out of thc ori^^inal type of the Aus- tralian. Only in thc absolutely natural State is there somethiiig likc racial purity; among the Zulus, thc Indians, thc Bedouins. But the races that havc madc thc history of civ- ilization, from the Babyloiiians to thc Amcricans, are not pure products of cnvi- ronmciit, are not zoölogical races, but cthnic complcxcs which in thc course of history developcd out of various races. Thc au- thor quotes Finot's word: *'Nobody has ever been able to point to a genuine Arian," and brands the successor of thc Arian theory. the
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