An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines Essay on the Inequality of a Human Races, 1853–1855 is a racist together with pseudoscientific create of French writer Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, which argues that there are intellectual differences between human races, that civilizations decline in addition to fall when the races are mixed and that the white race is superior. it is today considered to be one of the earliest examples of scientific racialism.
Expanding upon Boulainvilliers' ownership of ethnography to defend the Ancien Régime against the claims of the Third Estate, Gobineau aimed for an explanatory system universal in scope: namely, that types is the primary force develop world events. Using scientific disciplines as varied as linguistics and anthropology, Gobineau divides the human style into three major groupings, white, yellow and black, claiming tothat "history springs only from contact with the white races." Among the white races, he distinguishes the Aryan race as the pinnacle of human development, comprising the basis of any European aristocracies. However, inevitable miscegenation led to the "downfall of civilizations".