From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
       Psychologist J. Philippe Rushton once observed that science moves   
   forward, continuing to gather data and refine its theories, but with   
   one important exception. A century ago, there was a robust Darwinian   
   science of race differences in a variety of traits, from differences   
   in skull shape and cranial capacity, to differences in intelligence   
   and behavioral restraint. However, this young science was nipped in   
   the bud, but not because it was displaced by a new, powerful, and   
   empirically based theory. Rather, the demise of racial science came   
   about because of intellectual movements dominated by ethnic Jews and   
   tightly linked to the political left.   
      
        This was a case of science being replaced by ideology, an   
   ideology designed to oppose the idea that Europeans were in any way   
   unique or superior to other human groups; an ideology designed to   
   advance the interests of ethnic outsiders with their own strong sense   
   of biological uniqueness and superiority. Ultimately, it was an   
   ideology that rationalized the decline of Europeans and their culture   
   that we see all around us today. The new ideology decreed that humans   
   were infinitely malleable creatures of their culture and eventually   
   became defined by the view that race does not exist at all.   
      
       Franz Boas, the high priest of the new cult, was a strongly   
   identified Jew and committed leftist. His famous study purporting to   
   show that skull shape changed as a result of immigration from Europe   
   to America was very effective propaganda weapon in the cause of   
   eradicating racial science. Indeed, it was intended as propaganda.   
   Based on their reanalysis of Boas’s data, physical anthropologists   
   Corey Sparks and Richard Jantz do not accuse Boas of scientific fraud,   
   but they do find that his data do not show any significant   
   environmental effects on cranial form as a result of immigration. They   
   also claim that Boas may well have been motivated by a desire to   
   expunge racialist views from academic anthropology:   
      
       While Boas never stated explicitly that he had based any   
   conclusions on anything but the data themselves, it is obvious that he   
   had a personal agenda in the displacement of the eugenics movement in   
   the United States. In order to do this, any differences observed   
   between European- and U.S.-born individuals will be used to its   
   fullest extent to prove his point.   
      
       As a result of the massive success of this onslaught, the science   
   of race differences languished, whatever truths it had uncovered were   
   forgotten. In Raciology, Vladimir Avdeyev resurrects the vast   
   tradition of research on the physical anthropology and psychology of   
   race differences. His book is an exhaustive summary of research in   
   this field from the eighteenth century to the present. It includes a   
   great many summaries of the research of individual scientists, many of   
   whom have been virtually forgotten. But it is far more than a   
   compendium of research. It also vigorously defends the idea that the   
   problem of race is the nerve center of world history. It is intended   
   therefore to influence how people think about race in the context of   
   history and current events.   
      
        Several themes recur throughout Raciology. Race is overwhelmingly   
   the result of biological inheritance, not cultural programming.   
   Beginning with Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, this body of theory   
   and research proposed that the biologically based racial   
   characteristics of Whites have led them to be originators of superior   
   cultures. The White race evolved in the north of Europe and spread   
   south and east to be the main force behind the ancient cultures of   
   Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, Persia, and the Hittites. The ancestral   
   type of the White race, called the Nordic race originally by Joseph   
   Deniker, is characterized by blond hair, blue eyes, light skin, tall   
   stature, dolichocephalic (long-headed) skull, and a brain with a   
   welldeveloped prefrontal area (the area of the brain associated with   
   intelligence, impulse control, and decision making). Houston Stewart   
   Chamberlain may be considered paradigmatic of a theorist who proposed   
   that northern Europeans are a superior people:   
      
      All outstanding peoples that appeared starting in the 6th century   
   in the role of true deciders of the fate of humanity as founders of   
   nations and creators of new thinking and original art, were namely of   
   German origin. The creations of the Arabs stand out for their short   
   duration; the Mongols only destroyed but they created nothing; the   
   ingenious Italians of the Middle Ages were all émigrés, or of the   
   north which was saturated with Lombard, Gothic, or Frankish blood, or   
   they were Germano-Hellenes of the south; in Spain, the creative   
   element was the Visigoths. The awakening of the Germans forms the   
   foundation of European history, for their worldwide historical   
   significance as founders of a completely new civilization and a   
   completely new culture.   
      
      However, despite the great flowering of culture emanating from   
   Europe and despite the knowledge that Europeans and their culture   
   dominated the planet, there is also a pessimism that pervades this   
   literature, the idea that White racial elites tend to become degraded   
   over historical time because of admixture with other races. It was   
   common among these thinkers to assert that the depletion of the Nordic   
   racial stratum accounts for the decline of Greece, Rome, the Hindus,   
   the Persians, and other Nordic civilizations. For example, Ludwig   
   Woltmann: The blonde element of the people defines its cultural   
   worthiness, and the fall of great cultures is explained by the dying   
   out of this element. Eugen Fischer: In Greece, the death of the   
   families of fully-vested citizens and the admission of the descendants   
   of slaves and the aboriginal population as citizens, led . . . to   
   collapse. Rome died of race mixing and the products of degeneracy.   
    And finally, Otto Reche, writing in 1936:   
      
     That which we call "world history" is in essence nothing more than   
   the history of the Indo-Germans and their achievements; the powerfully   
   rousing and simultaneously tragic song about the Nordic race and its   
   idealism; a song which tells about how the strength of the race did   
   what seemed impossible and reached for the stars, and how the strength   
   quickly dried up when the "law of race" was forgotten, when the Nordic   
   man ceased to preserve the purity of his blood and strongly mixes with   
   races [that are] less gifted in cultural terms.   
      
      Lenz gives major weight to the selective pressures of the Ice Age   
   on northern peoples. He proposed that the intellectual abilities of   
   these peoples are due to a great need to master the natural   
   environment, resulting in selection for traits related to mechanical   
   ability, structural design, and inventiveness in problem solving (what   
   psychologists term "performance IQ"), whereas he argued that Jewish   
   intelligence was the result of intensive social living (what   
      
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