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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA

notion entertained by the average man of the street.

What we associate with race and race-
superiority belong []as a matter of fact, to this
domain of culture. To begin with there is no such thing as pure race Racial homogeneity so
often insisted upon, and is so often [ ] taken for granted,
is more often cultural rather than racial. For
example, the Jews are often said to be a pure race,
but in fact, they possess no racial homogeneity But What
they possess is a cultural homogeneity. So to [ ] So the attempt at
a discussion of racial superiority, or for that matter, of racial
inferiority, is an effort [ ing] rested on [ ] a thing
that does not exist. It is not a reality.

What we really mean when we speak of racial
superiority, we mean[ ] think of is in truth institutional differences possessed
by the various peoples of the world - Among these
institutionalized factors and facts of life may be
mentioned languages, cultures, political systems and philoso-
phyies, social & economic concepts expressed, ethical theories