Historians have made much of the significant philosophical gap between the pessimism of Gobineau himself, particularly his insistence that his vision was of mythical Aryans as a fallen and lost people, versus the optimism and themes of rejuvenation of the disciples and members of the Gobinism movement.[10] It has been suggested that the spawning of Gobinism went on to majorly influence all future racial theories of the period.[11] Nietzsche's Übermensch was largely inspired by the movement.[12] Some historians believe the influence of Gobinism was still affecting racial discourse into the mid-20th-century.[13]