Ebook: Essay on the inequality of human races

“Published in 1853, Arthur de Gobineau's work aims to establish the differences affecting all human races, all skin colors combined, all religions, customs and philosophies mixed together.
For the first time published in its completeness in 1855, the work presents one of the greatest myths of contemporary racism: the Aryan myth. Essentially historical, it is also based on linguistics and mainly on the specific character of peoples via in-depth knowledge and breathtaking documentation.
Combining popular prejudices and scientifically proven facts, archeology and literature, the primary objective of this book remains to bring History into the family of natural sciences. This is how Gobineau relies on the Old Testament to tell us about the different ancient civilizations, both at the physiological and psychological level. He then shows us all the colors by focusing very largely on three races: Blacks, Yellows and Whites.
The addition of three colors, therefore, not primary but complementary, would be, according to him, the driving force of History. Pushing the analysis of each ethnic group to the extreme, the author is as interested in its successes as in its failures. An admitted racist, it is thus without complexes that the latter exposes a certain hierarchy of races without ever trying to explain its foundations, without apologizing for anything either. Also, Whites “naturally” find their place at the top because in his eyes they represent the invigorating principle bringing races into contact and allowing civilization.
The edition presents us with intertwined fingers on a black and white background, a reproduction objectively inspired by a very trendy Chinese philosophy: yin and yang. A white hand on the left, a black hand on the right, both joined in perfect osmosis. A symbol of peace and reunification, this gesture is in total contradiction with the symbolism of yin and yang, namely duality. This same dualism taking the form of complementarity in Eastern culture, everything tends to prove that it is through the alliance of peoples that the world would achieve its completeness, perfect balance in a setting of well-being.
This is how yin materializes the feminine, the moon, the dark, the cold, while the yang represents the masculine, the sun, clarity, heat. Blacks and Whites would therefore complement each other perfectly knowing that black represents the positive and, conversely, white the negative. But doesn't more equal less? To subtraction therefore, to duality too, to complementarity by extension. It is by this fact united that people would become positive for each other,
But what did Gobineau himself think? Quite the opposite according to the pessimistic conclusion brought to his work. The author actually concludes with the progressive disappearance of the white race, a decline due to widespread miscegenation that she herself would have helped to generate. The world would therefore be increasingly confronted with mixed-race peoples, uniform and without vitality. Still according to Gobineau, all of humanity would allow itself to die once this principle of vitality had disappeared.
From a historical point of view, the work can in fact be of interest to the greatest number of people due to the pillars on which Gobineau relied. Its literary, archaeological, linguistic, biblical and ethnic support and references are in fact irrefutable, which is obviously not the case for its points of view and assertions resulting directly from it... Each reader will thus be able to retain their value judgments, opinions own and degree of indulgence and/or revenge towards the different human races, if they exist...”
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