A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch.

  • Hirsch, Nathaniel David Mttron, 1896-
Date:
[1926], ©1926
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Credit: A study of natio-racial mental differences / by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . 402 GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY MONOGRAPHS As examples of the latter one might point to several of the countries of Western Europe and Central Europe. The Scotch, English, Norwegians, Danes, French, and Germans are mod¬ ern illustrations of the thesis that the blending of similar sub- races results in favorable types which are more energetic and variable than a group that has for centuries practised in¬ breeding. The crossing and blending of Natio-Races in America is inevitable—proximity is the decisive factor. Even if a great measure of success were attained in the other portions of our program, nevertheless there would still remain many vigorous vital sub-races in America. All evidence seems to point out that the crossing of the more energetic and intelligent Natio- Racial groups would result in a new, vital, imaginative, cap¬ able and variable American Natio-Race. The author has collected some material data on the results of the intermarriage of one of these groups with other European Natio-Races. When we recall the relatively few intermarriages that have taken place between Jew and non- Jew during the last century, the numbers and the greatness of some of the following personages, who have frorh one-quarter to three-quarters Jewish blood, is striking: Rosa Bonheur; F. W. Taussig; Marëes ; Feuerbach; Bäsch; Cezanne; Christian Morgenstern; Bret Harte; Bayard Tay¬ lor; Maeterlinck; Bethman von Hollweg; Cardinal Newman; the Arnolds ; Münsterberg ; Metchnikoff ; Bergson ; Wagner ; Sonnino; Weissman (biologist); Dernberg; Beudeman (Ger¬ man general) ; and a sc»n, Beudeman, a prominent German painter; Paul von Heyse ; Sir Frederick Co wen; Robert Browning ; D'Annunzio* ; Charles Kingsley ; General Booth ; *It has been ^denied that the starred names are partly Jewish.