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.In other words, in order to preserve a certain culture, the type157 Mein Kampfof manhood that creates such a culture must be preserved.But such a preservation goes hand-in-hand withthe inexorable law that it is the strongest and the best who must triumph and that they have the right toendure.He who would live must fight.He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is thelaw of life, has not the right to exist.Such a saying may sound hard; but, after all, that is how the matter really stands.Yet far harder is the lot ofhim who believes that he can overcome Nature and thus in reality insults her.Distress, misery, and diseaseare her rejoinders.Whoever ignores or despises the laws of race really deprives himself of the happiness to which he believes hecan attain.For he places an obstacle in the victorious path of the superior race and, by so doing, he interfereswith a prerequisite condition of all human progress.Loaded with the burden of humanitarian sentiment, hefalls back to the level of those who are unable to raise themselves in the scale of being.It would be futile to attempt to discuss the question as to what race or races were the originalstandard-bearers of human culture and were thereby the real founders of all that we understand by the wordhumanity.It is much simpler to deal with this question in so far as it relates to the present time.Here theanswer is simple and clear.Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technicalskill, which we see before our eyes to-day, is almost exclusively the product of the Aryan creative power.This very fact fully justifies the conclusion that it was the Aryan alone who founded a superior type ofhumanity; therefore he represents the architype of what we understand by the term: MAN.He is thePrometheus of mankind, from whose shining brow the divine spark of genius has at all times flashed forth,always kindling anew that fire which, in the form of knowledge, illuminated the dark night by drawing asidethe veil of mystery and thus showing man how to rise and become master over all the other beings on theearth.Should he be forced to disappear, a profound darkness will descend on the earth; within a few thousandyears human culture will vanish and the world will become a desert.If we divide mankind into three categories founders of culture, bearers of culture, and destroyers of culture the Aryan alone can be considered as representing the first category.It was he who laid the groundwork anderected the walls of every great structure in human culture.Only the shape and colour of such structures areto be attributed to the individual characteristics of the various nations.It is the Aryan who has furnished thegreat building-stones and plans for the edifices of all human progress; only the way in which these planshave been executed is to be attributed to the qualities of each individual race.Within a few decades the wholeof Eastern Asia, for instance, appropriated a culture and called such a culture its own, whereas the basis ofthat culture was the Greek mind and Teutonic skill as we know it.Only the external form at least to acertain degree shows the traits of an Asiatic inspiration.It is not true, as some believe, that Japan addsEuropean technique to a culture of her own.The truth rather is that European science and technics are justdecked out with the peculiar characteristics of Japanese civilization.The foundations of actual life in Japanto-day are not those of the native Japanese culture, although this characterizes the external features of thecountry, which features strike the eye of European observers on account of their fundamental difference fromus; but the real foundations of contemporary Japanese life are the enormous scientific and technicalachievements of Europe and America, that is to say, of Aryan peoples.Only by adopting these achievementsas the foundations of their own progress can the various nations of the Orient take a place in contemporaryworld progress.The scientific and technical achievements of Europe and America provide the basis on whichthe struggle for daily livelihood is carried on in the Orient.They provide the necessary arms and instrumentsfor this struggle, and only the outer forms of these instruments have become gradually adapted to Japaneseways of life.If, from to-day onwards, the Aryan influence on Japan would cease and if we suppose that Europe andAmerica would collapse then the present progress of Japan in science and technique might still last for ashort duration; but within a few decades the inspiration would dry up, and native Japanese character wouldtriumph, while the present civilization would become fossilized and fall back into the sleep from which it was158 Mein Kampfaroused about seventy years ago by the impact of Aryan culture.We may therefore draw the conclusion that,just as the present Japanese development has been due to Aryan influence, so in the immemorial past anoutside influence and an outside culture brought into existence the Japanese culture of that day.This opinionis very strongly supported by the fact that the ancient civilization of Japan actually became fossilizied andpetrified.Such a process of senility can happen only if a people loses the racial cell which originally had beencreative or if the outside influence should be withdrawn after having awakened and maintained the firstcultural developments in that region.If it be shown that a people owes the fundamental elements of its cultureto foreign races, assimilating and elaborating such elements, and if subsequently that culture becomesfossilized whenever the external influence ceases, then such a race may be called the depository but never thecreator of a culture.If we subject the different peoples to a strict test from this standpoint we shall find that scarcely any one ofthem has originally created a culture, but almost all have been merely the recipients of a culture createdelsewhere.This development may be depicted as always happening somewhat in the following way:Aryan tribes, often almost ridiculously small in number, subjugated foreign peoples and, stimulated by theconditions of life which their new country offered them (fertility, the nature of the climate, etc.), and profitingalso by the abundance of manual labour furnished them by the inferior race, they developed intellectual andorganizing faculties which had hitherto been dormant in these conquering tribes.Within the course of a fewthousand years, or even centuries, they gave life to cultures whose primitive traits completely corresponded tothe character of the founders, though modified by adaptation to the peculiarities of the soil and thecharacteristics of the subjugated people.But finally the conquering race offended against the principles whichthey first had observed, namely, the maintenance of their racial stock unmixed, and they began to interminglewith the subjugated people.Thus they put an end to their own separate existence; for the original sincommitted in Paradise has always been followed by the expulsion of the guilty parties
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