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Scientifically the word Aryan refers to language rather than race. Some scholars in England applied it to the whole family of Indo-European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch?Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went...
...France, a German professor stuck his finger into the dead corpus of the Sanskrit language and pulled out a word that was to kindle the fires of scientific controversy for many a long year to come. The word that Friedrich Maximilian Muller introduced to the Western world was Aryan, which in Sanskrit means nothing more than "noble...
...Germany, Max Muller's new word sprouted in fertile soil and quickly got out of hand. A considerable body of German scholars not only gave Aryan the widest possible linguistic meaning, but applied it as a race-name to the primitives who spread over Europe from their unknown homeland. These learned men asserted that Indo-Europeans were fair-haired, blue-eyed, resembled in all ways the ideal German...
...lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened and why it has happened. As a human being I cannot justify it. . . . The German people may have learned what it means to be hated...
Silver. Since the Silver Legion regards not the white race but the Aryan race as God's chosen people, it stands closest in spirit, and reputedly in fact, to the real Nazis...