¶ … mechanically correct writing skills. This Chamberlain's ideas disseminated within his text "The Importance on Race" are as rigid and as austere as the purity of race he describes in benign terms. One of the more interesting points about this work is that in many ways, his ideas can be understood as both a response to the bureaucratization of life and as an example of such bureaucracy. These interpretations largely hinge upon the author's compartmentalizing of people (and even animals) according to their race, which he actually traces to different groups throughout history.
As an example of bureaucratization, the author's notion of a pure race functions as the ultimate form of compartmentalization. He posits the viewpoint that only those whose bloodlines are quintessential and undiluted can truly accomplish noble tasks. His value for such people, which inevitably is used to justify the Teutonic peoples in Germany as the ideal master race, stems from the fact that he believes they possess a "sureness" of character, and that their actions are "marked by a certain simple and peculiar greatness" (Chamberlain).
However, the degree of exclusion which is required to maintain such a purity is the chief way in which this concept of the author's functions as an example of bureaucracy. Racial purity permits no exceptions in terms of outsiders, either via intermarriage or even in making claims to a land which belongs to a quintessential race. The disastrous consequences to racial...
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