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The Growth of the Race Idea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Eric Voegelin
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The race problem is branching out today into so many fields that a preliminary understanding becomes necessary as to the special topic with which the present paper is concerned. Let us first make it clear negatively that the question of the classification of the human races does not come within the scope of this inquiry. The race idea should be distinguished from the race concept which is used in natural science. Furthermore, we are not concerned with the improvement of a given human population through eugenic measures. And, finally we do not intend to deal with the problem of political and social relations between the white and the colored races. When we speak of the race idea we have in mind chiefly the idea as it is used by modern creeds, of the type of National Socialism, in order to integrate a community spiritually and politically.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1940 , pp. 283 - 317
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1940

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