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the only resistance which mankind of healthy stock…can offer against being penetrated by degeneracy is based on the existence of certain innate schemata.…Our species-specific sensitivity to the beauty and ugliness of members of our species is intimately connected with the symptoms of degeneration caused by domestication, which threaten our race.…Decadent art provides many examples of such a change of signs.…The immensely high reproduction rate in the moral imbecile has long been established.…This phenomenon leads everywhere to the fact that socially inferior human material is enabled…to penetrate and finally to annihilate healthy stock. This selection for toughness, heroism, and social utility…must be accomplished by some human institution, if mankind, in default of selective factors, is not to be ruined by domestication-induced degeneracy. The racial idea as the basis of our state has already accomplished much in this respect. (3, p. 2)
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