I was pretty shocked reading Stoddard that (as best I recall) there was pretty much nothing about superiority/inferiority, and that he saw the end of "White World Supremacy" as inevitable, and not particularly a bad thing.
I don’t agree with either of these assessments. He has a whole complex crazy system. There’s a hierarchy of intellectual ability with “Nordics” at the top and black people at the bottom. He believes black people are physically superior. Worst of all are certain “mongrels” because they combine all the negative attributes and none of the positives.
“As explained in the Introduction [written by Madison Grant], the white race divides into three main sub-species—the Nordics, the Alpines, and the Mediterraneans. All three are good stocks, ranking in genetic worth well above the various colored races. However, there seems to be no question that the Nordic is far and away the most valuable type; standing, indeed, at the head of the whole human genus. As Madison Grant well expresses it, the Nordic is ‘The Great Race.’”
“Although the white race displays sustained constructive power to an unrivalled degree, particularly in its Nordic branches, the brown and yellow peoples have contributed greatly to the civilization of the world and have profoundly influenced human progress. The negro, on the contrary, has contributed virtually nothing. Left to himself, he remained a savage… The originating powers of the European and the Asiatic are not in him.”
“There can be no doubt that the Indian is superior to the negro. The negro, even when quickened by foreign influences, never built up anything approaching a real civilization; whereas the Indian… evolved genuine polities and cultures like the Aztec of Mexico, the Inca of Peru, and the Maya of Yucatan.”
“The black man is, indeed, sharply differentiated from the other branches of mankind. His outstanding quality is superabundant animal vitality. In this he easily surpasses all other races. To it... is due his extreme fecundity, the negro being the quickest of breeders.”*
“Professor Agassiz wrote: ‘Let any one who doubts the evil of this mixture of races… come to Brazil. He cannot deny the deterioration consequent upon the amalgamation of races… which is rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro, and the Indian, leaving a mongrel, nondescript type, deficient in physical and mental energy.’”
He thinks that if white people cease to exist then it will be an utter catastrophe for the world.
“If white civilization goes down, the white race is irretrievably ruined. It will be swamped by the triumphant colored races, who will obliterate the white man by elimination or absorption... If the present drift be not changed, we whites are all ultimately doomed.”
“And that would mean that the race obviously endowed with the greatest creative ability, the race which had achieved most in the past and which gave the richer promise for the future, had passed away, carrying with it to the grave those potencies upon which the realization of man’s highest hopes depends. A million years of human evolution might go uncrowned, and earth’s supreme life-product, man, might never fulfil his potential destiny. This is why we to-day face ‘The Crisis of the Ages.’”
The above quotes are all from Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy (1920).
*Very interesting similarity to orcs here, one that hasn’t been raised in the thread up until now afaik.