al Prussian, who cannot be got to see that we are all white
men. The ordinary eye is unable to perceive in the Northeast Teuton
anything that marks him out especially from the more colorless classes
of the rest of Aryan mankind. He is simply a white man, with a tendency
to the gray or the drab. Yet he will explain in serious official
documents that the difference between him and us is a difference between
"the master race and the inferior race."

*How to Know "The Master Race."*

The collapse of German philosophy always occurs at the beginning rather
than the end of an argument, and the difficulty here is that there is no
way of testing which is a master race except by asking which is your own
race. If you cannot find out, (as is usually the case,) you fall back on
the absurd occupation of writing history about prehistoric times. But I
suggest quite seriously that if the Germans can give their philosophy to
the Hottentots there is no reason why they should not give their sense
of superiority to the Hottentots. If they can see such fine shades
between the Goth and the Gaul, there is no reason why similar shades
should not lift the savage above other savages; why any Ojibway should
not discover that he is one tint redder than the Dakotas, or any nigger
in the Kameruns say he is not so black as he is painted. For this
principle of a quite unproved racial supremacy is the last and worst of
the refusals of reciprocity. The Prussian calls all men to admire the
beauty of his large blue eyes. If they do, it is because they have
inferior eyes; if they don't, it is because they have no eyes.

Wherever the most miserable remnant of our race, astray and dried up in
deserts or buried forever under the fall of bad civilization, has some
feeble memory that men are men, that bargains are bargains, that there
are two sides to a question, or even that it takes two to make a
quarrel--that remnant has the right to assist the New Culture, to the
knife and club and the splintered stone. For the Prussian begins all his
culture by that act which is the destruction of all creative thought and
constructive action. He breaks that mirror in the mind in which a man
can see the face of his friend or foe.

*IV.*

*Russia Less Despotic Than Prussia*

The German Emperor has reproached this country (England) with allying
itself with "barbaric and semi-Oriental power." We have already
considered in what sense we use the word barbaric; it