Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-01-19
o THE LATIN RACES"
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There is a great deal of ignorance,
not among "common people" merely,
but among scholars and even men of
science, in regard to climatic influences
Oh character, &c. Thus, how often,
especially since the Franco-German
war, it is said that the "Latin races
are worn out, especially France, judg-
ing, Of course, as usual, from that won
derful accident by which, for the sec
ond time in twenty centuries, the
Germanic, or "Northern barbarians,"
as Gibbon calls them, have over
whelmed France and the Latin races.
of course that which the Almighty
Creator has fashioned and fixed never
changes, but other things accordant,
that race or variety that is most COM
pletely within its specific center of ex-
istence must needs reach its highest
possible development and furnish the
finest types of its kind. The Latin
races, so-called, are the people of South
en Europe--the French, Italians,
Spaniards, &C., including the antique
Greeks and Romans, and they not only
always have, but always will furnish
the grandest types, and govern the
world. Not only were Alexander,
Caesar and Napoleon, by universal CON
sent, the three grandest mortals the
world ever saw, but nearly all of the
greatest men Of the secondary class,
Demosthenes, Cicero, Cato. Pompey,
and, in MEDIEVAL times, Charlamange,
Hildebrand, Michael Angelo, Colum-
bus, Leo Xth., Charles Vth., and in
modern times, Voltaire, Mirabeau,
Canova, Talleyrand, Robespierre, Carl
baldi all of the Latin races. Indeed,
save in quite modern times, there are
no Germans or Sclavonians, Of even
second.class men and Peter tho Great,
Gustavus Adolphus, Wallentein, Fred
erick the Great, and Bismarck, about
make up the list As regards general
history, there is none, save as made by
the "Latin races until we como to
the time of Luther, and even then it is
rather history of Latin failures than
of any special records of Germanic or
Sclavonic development On the thus
far oircumsoribed records of tho New
World, we see the same thing-Wash,
ington, Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun.
&c. have breadthIand grandeur of soul
and richness of life not TO be found
elsewhere. II is true, New England
produced ono greatman intellectually,
but morally he was absolutely con.
temptiblc; and, as regards the civil
war, tho time will come, and is indeed
close al hand when nearly or perhaps
all that was heroic and that appeals to
future generations, will be Southern,
and the small-souled Grants, and Sher.
mans and fraudulent tricksters like
Lincoln and Seward have won for
year only to lose for all eternity. To
the anthropologist all these things are
plain, of course, for they belong TO the
nature and organic necessity of things.
1t Is universal an inevitable law that
all creatures white men and negroes,
all animals, and indeed all vegetable
species, other things equal, will reach
their most perfect development in the
center of life where the Creator placed
thom, And though men are vastly
by social conditions, and that
of Virginia, &c, based on the natural
distinction of species in contrast to
that OF England, &C., based on the hui
man invention of class, must needs
furnish higher types, both OF men and
women, still, the center of the temper
ate attitudes, as south of the Potomac
as well as OF the Rhine, always will las
Il always has, continue to furnish the
grandest types of our kind, and will
govern the world.