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ARYAN

                                       September 2, 1992

Wells' _Outline of History_ uses the
word Aryan all over the place.  At
first I tended to assume that this was      After all, in the twenties,
just a neutral, descriptive term he was     the word hadn't yet been   
using for a germanic-speaking people.       charged with evil by the   
                                            Nazis.                     
                            

Unfortunately it is actually
used in a (somewhat) racist             Early on, Wells cautions the 
way all too often.                      reader about confusing language 
                                        groups with ethnicities: 
For example, near the                   people of varying lines of 
beginning of the chapter                descent can and do learn 
on Buddhism, Wells speaks               a language.
glowingly of Guatama                               
seeking after greatness as                   Wells himself has a little    
though the Aryan spirit                      trouble remembering this,    
was waking up inside of                      e.g. he often introduces a   
him.  Wells says that the                    people with a sterotype of   
Buddhist doctrine is                         their appearence.         
called "The Aryan Path",                                
which is very interesting,
since I'd always heard it                     
called "The Shining Path".                  
                                 Shining=Bright=White=Aryan ?            


So the ideas Wells pushes                   
in his outline are perhaps                   
part of the spirit that                   WORLDGOV 
led to fascism.           
                                                                              
   A mystical, Aryan world state.... 


                                         
                                         
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