Rosser & Gobineau

[Greg Nowell]

Rosser is right, Gobineau, not Gobelin.  Such was my
laziness that I didn't even verify with the desk
encyclopedia to my left or the book of writings itself,
5 paces to my right.  Ah well.  A few sentences from
the Petit Robert, as penance for my inaccuracy:

Gobineau, count Joseph Arthur (1816-1882).  French
diplomat and writer, he served in Persia, Greece, and
Brazil, wrote a number of works....In the
Pleiades...appear three people, in the midst of a
heroic and sentimental idyll, of different nationality
and character, who have in common the feeling of being
superior, of being "sons of kings" and who display
their nobility by the independence of their spirits.
His views on human nature were developed in his Essay
on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855) where
he tried to establish on a physical, realistic basis
the supposed superiority of the nordic, germanic race.
His doctrine was used by pangermanists and by Hitler's
national socialism.

--
Gregory P. Nowell
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, Milne 100
State University of New York
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