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ethics, and morals were kept flexible, relative to the needs of the moment. This lack of
commitment to much of anything except possessions allowed Aryans to overturn local ways in
which people held to principles and to local faith.
Pragmatism was an impressive and effective technological advance in politics, if not in morality.
In the science of society, the leadership reserved the right to lie, cheat, deceive, be generally
faithless wherever advantage presented itself, and not only to do these things to the enemy but to
one’s own people if need be—a moral code well suited to a fast-moving warrior people. But a
price had to be paid. Over time, the idea of real kinship became more and more fictitious, family
life characterized as much by ritual and ceremony as love. And in many places, said Maine,
kinship, owing to mass adoption of children from conquered peoples, became mythical for whole
clans. Nobody was who they said they were or thought themselves to be.
It is surely one of the grim ironies of history that the root identity of American elites was
crystalizing at the turn of the century around blood relationships to a warrior people so indifferent
to blood relationships, they often had no idea who they really were. With Anglo-Saxons, the
abstract principle always counted for more than flesh and blood.
Once the character of the Aryans was known, there remained only the exciting task of establishing
the homeland, the ancient forge of these virile conquerors. The behavioral ideals they willed their
descendants—to impose upon lesser peoples—were written clearly enough on the chalkboards of
the new schooling. Total submission led the list. But giving the Aryans a birthplace (assuming it
was the right one) would complete the circle of triumph. To the elite mind, that job was over by
1880. The ancient ancestor could now be fixed by common agreement somewhere in the cold
North around the Baltic Sea. Some said Scandinavia. Some said North-Central Germany. But the
chief detectives holding the Anglo/American franchise on truth homed in on that zone between the
Elbe and the Oder Rivers, to the lands comprising the regions of modern Prussia!
The Machine Gun Builds Hotchkiss
The widow of the man who perfected the machine gun founded the Hotchkiss School; a Lowell
and a Forbes funded Middlesex; the DuPonts were the patrons of Kent; St. George’s was
underwritten by the Brown family whose name graces Brown University; Choate looked to the
Mellon family for generous checks; J.P. Morgan was behind Groton. Over 90 percent of the great
American private boarding schools issued from that short period just after Herbert Spencer’s
American visit in 1882 and just before the indirect edict to the National Education Association
that it must play ball with the de-intellectualization of public schooling, or it would be abandoned
by America’s business leadership.
Elite private boarding schools were an important cornerstone in the foundation of a permanent
American upper class whose children were to be socialized for power. They were great schools
for the Great Race, intended to forge a collective identity among children of privilege, training
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