The work of J. Evola is full of unequivocal statements in stark
contrast with that fanciful view on race expressed, along somehow
romantico-evolutionist lines, by Mussolini, and, on the contrary,
closely akin to the pre-Christian Roman conception of blood ; the
following one is taken from "Natura aria", a text published during WW2
in 'Il Corriere Padano' :
"Ario" si nasce, non si diventa : NASCITUR, NON FIT. (...) Ario è una
qualità di razza e di casta. Essa si eredita. Passa di padre in
figlio. Nullo puo' supplirla : proprio come il privilegio che, fino a
ieri, aveva anche fra noi il sangue aristocratico".
"One is born 'Aryan', one does not become so : NASCITUR, NON FIT.
(...) To be Aryan is a quality of race and of caste. It is transmitted
from father to son. Nothing can substitute for it : just as the
privilege which, until recently, aristocratic blood had among us".
> >
>
> The view that a race can create itself strikes me as very Hegelian,
for the
> more mainstream Fascist thinkers this might of been an aim, but for
Evola I
> would of thought not.
>
>
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Gordon"
<firdarrig@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > >> In other words : Kapitulieren niemals.
>
> >>Or in Latin words (Horace): Si fractus illabitur orbis, impavidum
ferient
> >>ruinae = even if the world would fall, its ruins would strike me
fearless.
>
> > >>And these orientations, needless to say after our readers have been
> >enlightened about the context in which 'Orientamenti' was written,
applied
> >obviously, contrary to what Vandermok wrongly assumed (see message
18), to
> >the Italian, to the European, to the Western youth.
> >
> >>On the race, there is a curious sentence of Mussolini quoted by
Evola:
> >>"the race is feeling, not reality: for the 95 %, it' s just
feeling", but
> >>Evola added: When a feeling is sufficiently lively, virile and
constant,
> >>tends to turn into a reality, and till the point that, under certain
> >>circumstances, the "myth of the race" can effectively create a
"race",
> >>over there it did not exist: determining a certain "style", a
certain "way
> >>of being", a behaviour that ends by acting in a formative way on the
> >>biological and anthropological datum, handing down itself beyond the
> >>generation that created
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