Excerpt from The Prussian Race, Ethnologically Considered: To Which Is Appended Some Account of the Bombardment of the Museum of Natural History, Etc, , By the Prussians in January, 1871

I have always opposed the application of anthropology to politics, such applications rest almost always upon error. Doubtless the difference of race is evident between whites and negroes. And the English and Hindoo, also, could scarcely be confounded, for their Aryan blood is more or less mingled with that ¿owing from very different sources: they separated ages ago, are both modified by almost opposing condi tions of existence, and isolated by the foundations of their civilisation and faith. They are very excusable for forgetting their parentage, although it is now put beyond a doubt. But when they treat each other as strangers, both may rightly appeal to anthropology.

It is not, however, the same with the other Euro pean nations.

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