Эрнст Кассирер (1874-1945) Myth of the State (1946)
PART III The Myth of the Twentieth Century
XVI From Hero Worship to Race Worship
Gobineau's "Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines "
...Practically speaking this was a great and obvious advantage. Here was something that could fill a lack which, in the second half of the nineteenth century, was felt everywhere. Man is, after all, a metaphysical animal. His "metaphysical need" is ineradicable. But the great metaphysical systems of the nineteenth century were no longer able to give a clear and understandable answer to these questions. They had become so intricate and sophisticated that they were almost unintelligible. With Gobineau's book it was quite different.
...The problem of the so-called "universals" and their reality has been discussed throughout the whole history of philosophy. But what philosophers never realized was the fact that the real "universals" are not to be sought in the thoughts of men but in these substantial forces that determine his destiny. Of all these forces the race is the strongest and the most unquestionable. Here we have a fact, not a mere idea.
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The Theory of the "Totalitarian Race"
That race is an important factor in human history; that different races have built up different forms of culture; that these forms are not on the same level; that they vary both in their character and in their value-all this was a generally acknowledged fact.