. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. 'il. THE LITERARY REVIEW, APRIL 2, 1921 / Race Theory r ^i% JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KUL- ; By Dr. Furrz Kahm. B^lin: Welt Verlag. Rcviewed by A. V. Endi AYEAR beforc the war the writcr wat agreeably lurprised to read in « German book on the Cretan discov- eries of Arthur Evans a very forceful refu- tation of the race theory which had been •o curiously exploitcd by Teuton scholars in the interest of their nationalistic megalo- mania. The anon
. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. 'il. THE LITERARY REVIEW, APRIL 2, 1921 / Race Theory r ^i% JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KUL- ; By Dr. Furrz Kahm. B^lin: Welt Verlag. Rcviewed by A. V. Endi AYEAR beforc the war the writcr wat agreeably lurprised to read in « German book on the Cretan discov- eries of Arthur Evans a very forceful refu- tation of the race theory which had been •o curiously exploitcd by Teuton scholars in the interest of their nationalistic megalo- mania. The anonymous author closed one chapter with the Statement: Even Minos, the first good European—Eu- ropa*8 first son—has for father a Norse god, but has also a Semitic unclc: Cadmos, This voice in the wilderness of German pre-war literature has been recently en- forced by several works by writers of Hc- brew origin, among them Dr. Kahn's vol- ume. ^t is an erudite, yet brightly written work/which in the six chapters entitled Race, The Arian, The Teuton, Fhe Semite, The Jew, and The Cijiturc of the Jews, dis- poses of the myth of racial puiity which the Germans claimed for themselves and on which they based their "right" to rule the World. The author says in the first chap- ter: -»^ Race is a prodijct of environment. All human races to-day developed through their changing fates in the differcnt environ- ments out of the original type of the Aus- tralian. Only in the absolutely natural State is there something' like racial purity; among the Zulus, the Indians, the Bclouins. But the races that have the h. ory of civ- ilization, ' from the Babylonians to the Americans, are not pure producta of envi- ronment, are not zoölogical races, but cthnic complexes which in the course of history developed out of various races. The au- thor quotes Finot's word: ''Nobody has ever been able to point to a genuine Arian,'' and brands the successor of the Arian theory. the Teuton
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