German national romantics paired naturalistic race-talk with anti-domination principles.

Evidence

“Animals of mixed stock have no real generative power; similarly, hybrid peoples have no folk propagation of their own… The ancestor of humanity is dead, the original race is extinct. That is why each dying people is a misfortune for humanity… Human nobility cannot express itself in one people alone.” In Deulsches Volkstum, 1810. The same instance is expressed by Goerres, who despite his naturalistic definition of people (“all members are united by a common tie of blood”), follows a true national principle when he states: “No branch has a right to dominate the other” (op. cit.). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2257

Categorization

• XREF: Distinguishes race-thinking from a defensive nationalism—relevant to Arendt’s later separation of race-thinking from totalitarianism proper, and to readings on how nationalism can carry anti-imperial content.