Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Steiner Rudolf
Title : Colour and the human races
Year : 1923

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Now, Gentlemen, I have not yet fully answered the last question about colors. We will take it a little further or complete it. First of all, today we have to consider a most interesting question, namely, the human color itself. You know, of course, that over the face of the earth are people showing skins differing in color. The Europeans to whom we belong are called the “White Race.” Well, we know indeed that a man in Europe is not quite healthy when he is cheese-white. He is healthy when he shows his natural, fresh color, created by himself inwardly, through the white. But now besides this European coloring we have four other principal colors of the skin. We will consider this a little today because one actually understands the whole of history and the whole social life, even modern social life, only if one can turn to the race-characteristics of humanity see drawings. Only then can one rightly understand the spiritual element if one first studies how the spirit works in man precisely through the skin-color. I should now like to put the racial color before you in this way. Let us start from Europe where we ourselves are living. Here we have therefore - I can draw it for you only roughly - first Europe; bordering on Europe: Asia, England, Ireland; here Japan, China; further India, India proper, Arabia; here we have Africa. Thus: Europe, Asia, Africa. Now we will sketch in the men as they are in the corresponding regions. We call ourselves in Europe the white race. If we go over to Asia we have the yellow race, principally in Asia. And when we go over to Africa there we have the black race. Those are the original races. All others living in these regions are the consequence of migration. ...