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On the Genealogy of Morals, Essay 1 section 5:

>the vulgar man can be distinguished as the dark-coloured, and above all as the black-haired (‘hic niger est’), as the pre-Aryan inhabitants of the Italian soil, whose complexion distinguished them from the dominant blonds, namely the Aryan conquering race; at any rate Gaelic has afforded me the exact analogue – fin (for instance, in the name Fin-Gal), the word designating the nobility, finally – the good, the noble, the pure, but originally blonds in contrast to the swarthy, black-haired aboriginals. The Celts, if I may make a parenthetical statement, were a wholly blond race; and it is wrong to connect, as Virchow still does, those traces of an essentially dark-haired population which are to be seen on the more detailed ethnographical maps of Germany with any Celtic ancestry or with any admixture of Celtic blood; in this connection it is merely the isolated remnants of the pre-Aryan population of Germany which appear in these districts. (The same holds true for almost the whole of Europe; in point of fact, the subject race has finally again come to dominate, in complexion and the shortness of the skull, and perhaps in the intellectual and social instincts. Who can guarantee that modern democracy, still more modern anarchy and indeed that predilection for the ‘Commune’, the most primitive form of society, which is shared by all the Socialists in Europe, does not in its essence represent a monstrous reversion – and that the conquering and master race, the Aryan race, is not also becoming inferior physiologically?)

>the vulgar man can be distinguished as the dark-coloured, and above all as the black-haired (‘hic niger est’), as the pre-Aryan inhabitants of the Italian soil, whose complexion distinguished them from the dominant blonds, namely the Aryan conquering race;2
at any rate Gaelic has afforded me the exact analogue – fin (for instance, in the name Fin-Gal), the word designating the nobility, finally – the good, the noble, the pure, but originally blonds in contrast to the swarthy, black-haired aboriginals.

>The Celts, if I may make a parenthetical statement, were a wholly blond race; and it is wrong to connect, as Virchow still does, those traces of an essentially dark-haired population which are to be seen on the more detailed ethnographical maps of Germany with any Celtic ancestry or with any admixture of Celtic blood; in this connection it is merely the isolated remnants of the pre-Aryan population of Germany which appear in these districts. (The same holds true for almost the whole of Europe; in point of fact, the subject race has finally again come to dominate, in complexion and the shortness of the skull, and perhaps in the intellectual and social instincts.

>Who can guarantee that modern democracy, still more modern anarchy and indeed that predilection for the ‘Commune’, the most primitive form of society, which is shared by all the Socialists in Europe, does not in its essence represent a monstrous reversion – and that the conquering and master race, the Aryan race, is not also becoming inferior physiologically?)

Holy based.