Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race, published in
1916, is a classic in race studies. It is hard to imagine that
when my grandmas were little girls, The Passing became immensely
popular both in the United States and in Europe. Henry Fairfield
Osborn wrote in the Preface: In the chapters relating to the
racial history of Europe we enter a new and fascinating field of
study, which I trust the author himself may some day expand into
a longer story. I was fascinated by Osborn’s Preface and can
only ask, after a century since the book was written, where are
the historians who ought to have followed Grant’s steps? By now
heavy treatises, such as Gibbon’s multivolume study on the fall
of Rome, but this time taking race as the basis to understand
European history should have been written. But we only have
Grant’s preliminary study for a racial understanding of history.
Why are people of European origin sleeping so deeply? In “Europe
in Dormition” Dominique Venner wrote, “The state of ‘dormition’
is the cons