Degeneration

"Russia has the worst of everything: Italian corruption, American stupidity, and hidden Chinese communism."

"It has become the fashion to regard any symptom which is not obviously due to trauma or infection as a sign of degeneracy....this being so, it may well be asked whether an attribution of "degeneracy" is of any value, or adds anything to our knowledge"

"The word degenerate, when applied to a people, means that the people no longer has the same intrinsic value as it had before, because it has no longer the same blood in its veins, continual adulterations having gradually affected the quality of that blood....in fact, the man of a decadent time, the degenerate man properly so-called, is a different being from the racial point of view, from the heroes of the great ages. [...] I think I am right in concluding that the human race in all its branches has a secret repulsion from the crossing of blood"

"We stand now in the midst of a severe mental epidemic; of a sort of black death of degeneration and hysteria, and it is natural that we should ask anxiously on all sides: What is to come next?"

"Any new set of conditions which renders a species food and safety very easily obtained, seems to lead to degeneration"