If today, for example, the surface of the earth were upset by some tectonic event and a new Himalaya rose from the ocean floods, by one single cruel catastrophe the culture of humanity would be destroyed. No state would exist any longer, the bands of all order would be dissolved, the documents of millennial de- velopment would be shattered — a single great field of corpses covered by water and mud. But if from this chaos of horror even a few men of a certain race capable of culture had been preserved, the earth, upon settling, if only after thousands of years, would again get proofs of human creative power. Only the destruction of the last race capable of culture and its individual members would desolate the earth for good. Conversely, we can see even by examples from the present that state formations in their tribal beginnings can, if their racial supporters lack sufficient genius, not preserve them from destruction. Just as great animal species of prehistoric times had to give way to others and vanish without trace, man must also give way if he lacks a definite spiritual force which alone enables him to find the necessary weapons for his self-preservation. The state in itself does not create a specific cultural level; it can only preserve the race which conditions this level. Otherwise the state as such may continue to exist unchanged for centuries while, in consequence of a racial mixture which it has not pre- vented, the cultural capacity of a people and the general aspect of its life conditioned by it have long since suffered a profound change. The present-day state, for example, may. very well simu- late its existence as a formal mechanism for a certain length of time, but the racial poisoning of our national body creates a cul- tural decline which even now is terrifyingly manifest. Thus, the precondition for the existence of a higher humanity is not the state, but the nation possessing the necessary ability.Hundreds of exemplary states might exist on earth, but if the Aryan culture-bearer died out, there would be no culture corresponding to the spiritual level of the highest peoples of today. We can go even farther and say that the fact of human state formation would not in the least exclude the possibility of the destruction of the human race, provided that superior intellectual ability and elasticity would be lost due to the absence of their racial bearers.

Hence it is an unbelievable offense to represent the Germanic. 

peoples of the pre-Christian era 
as ' cultureless,' as barbarians. 

That they never were. Only the 
harshness of their northern, homeland forced,

 them into circumstances which thwarted the 

development of their creative forces. . 
If, without any ancient world, they had come to the more favorable regions of the south, and if the material provided by lower 
peoples had given them their first technical 

implements, the.culture-creating ability 

slumbering within them would-have.grown 
into radiant bloom just as-happened, for 

example, with the Greeks. 
But this primeval culture-creating force itself

 arises in turn_not 
from the northern climate alone. 

The Laplander, brought to 
the south, would be no more culture-creating 

than the Eskimo. 
For this glorious creative ability was given only to the Aryan, 
whether he bears it dormant within himself or gives it to awaker

Ling life, depending whether favorable 

circumstances permit this- or an inhospitable 

Nature prevents it. 

From this the following realization results: 

The slate is a means to an end. Its end lies in 

the preservation 
and advancement of a community of physically and psychically 
homogeneous creatures. This preservation itself comprises first of all 
existence as a race and thereby permits the free development of all the 
forces dormant in this race. Of them a part will always primarily 
serve the preservation of physical life, and only the remaining part 
the promotion of a further spiritual development. Actually the one 
always creates the precondition for tHe other. 

States which do not serVe this purpose are 

misbegotten, monstrosities in fact. The fact of 

their existence changes this no more than the 
success of a gang of bandits can justify robbery. 

We National Socialists as champions of a new

 philosophy of 
life must never base ourselves on so-called '

accepted facts' — 
and false ones at that. If we did, we would not 

be the champions of a new great idea, but the

 coolies of the present-day  
We must distinguish in the sharpest way 

between the state as a 
vessel and the race as its content. This vessel 

has meaning only 
if it can preserve and protect the content; otherwise it is useless.