# Race and nationality

Author: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76900

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## Summary

The struggle that is now devastating Europe has been described as an unavoidable war of races, as an outcome of the innate hostility between Teutonic, Slav, and Latin peoples, that can never be overcome by argument and reason, because it is due to deep-seated “racial instinct.” If this were so, we might despair of the future of mankind; for beyond this conflict would arise others without end, as wider and closer international intercourse develops and brings more emphatically into consciousness racial differences like those between Latin-American and Anglo-American, East Indian and European, Mongol or Malay and European. If this view were correct, the so-called “racial instinct” would perp...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/race-and-nationality-76900/chapters/1/index.md)