The Passing of the Great Race

This book established Madison Grant as an authority in racial thought. Its success laid the groundwork for the emerging science of eugenics, and was widely read by US presidents, scientists and became a popular best-seller in its day.

It was a call to American whites to counter the dangers both from non-white and non-North Western European immigration.

Unashamedly Nordicist in outlook, Grant used history and anthropology to argue against an open-door immigration policy, which, he said, would lead to the destruction of the founding American population.

“We Americans must realize that the altruistic ideals which have controlled our social development during the past century . . . are sweeping the nation toward a racial abyss. If the Melting Pot is allowed to boil without control, the type of native American of Colonial descent will become as extinct as the Athenian of the age of Pericles, and the Viking of the days of Rollo.”

This hand-edited reproduction contains the complete original text, tables and maps.

Contents

Part I – Race, Language, And Nationality

Introduction

Race And Democracy

The Physical Basis Of Race

Race And Habitat

The Competition Of Races

Race, Language, And Nationality

Race And Language

The European Races In Colonies

Part II – European Races In History

Eolithic Man

Paleolithic Man

The Neolithic And Bronze Ages

The Alpine Race

The Mediterranean Race

The Nordic Race

Teutonic Europe

The Expansion Of The Nordics

The Nordic Fatherland

Nordic Race Outside Of Europe

The Racial Aptitudes

Arya

The Origin Of The Aryan Languages

The Aryan Language In Asia

Bibliography

Index