The Boers used farms, Bibles, and blood to distinguish themselves from natives

Evidence

27 “Because they had little art, less architecture, and no literature, they depended upon their farms, their Bibles, and their blood to set them off sharply against the native and the outlander” (Kiewiet, op. cit., p. 121). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2328

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s larger argument about the Boers’ racial worldview in the main text — the three pillars of Boer identity prefigure the race-thinking that later becomes the racial state.