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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 85

Documents
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
1907 (May) long A.L.S. written on illustrated paper of Baur au Lac, Zürich, in German, expounding his concept of race "... In speaking about ‘race’, I principally wish to say nothing more than that, as every individual Psyche corresponds to an individual Physique, so does a collective Psyche require a collective Physique. Those who reject this proposition – for example in favour of an alleged equality of all humans – are either religious zealots or anti-scientific or anti-historic dreamers … . It is questionable indeed whether there is such a thing as an ‘Aryan’, meaning a special, homogeneous Aryan race that encompasses by blood relationship all branches of the so-called Indo-Europeans ..." (transl.). Signed "Houston Stewart Chamberlain", the address cut away from the foot of the final leaf.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855 – 1927) was an English, later German author of books on political philosophy, natural science and son-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner; he is described in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as a "racialist writer"

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