While Nordic elements, combining sometimeswith Mediterranean stock, built the great civilisationsof ancient Greece and Rome, it was racial decay thatresulted in the collapse of both these great nations,and their consequent destruction by a new wave ofNordic peoples from northern Emope. It was the Nordicpeoples, combined partly with Mediterranean cousins,who created the great art and culture of thet-.Iiddle Ages, and again the same Nordic Europeanstock who brought about the Renaissance in NordicLombardy, together with the Reformation movement. lways culture centred, throughout Europe, amongstthe Nordic aristocracy who for a thousand years ormore after the Gothic period succeeded in retainingtheir racial identity, even in Spain and Portugal, wheretheir numbers were always relatively few. But steadily,the influence of Nordic, and even true-Mediterraneanblood, has been running slowly out, until today _littletrue Nordic or Mediterranean blood is to be foundin southern· and central Europe.Steady immigration into Europe from Africa hasdone much to destroy the old Mediterranean stock inthe so-called 'Latin' countries, while in central EuropeAlpine influences are spreading widely, and todaydominate the bulk of the continental area between theTeutoburger Wald and the Mediterranean Sea. At thesame time constant internecine warfare has destroyedthe Nordic element, always attracted· to the scene ofmilitary activities more than any other race, whilesocial revolution has uprooted or annihiliated the Nordicaristocracy in most non-Nordic lands for Communismwas never an ally of ruling racial castes. Eyidenceof the vast racial changes which have taken place inEurope, and are even now taking place with ever increasingrapidity, is to be found in any graveyard, theexcavation of which reveals the knowledge that themodern inhabitants of central and southern Europe,whom we see walking the streets today, are in the mainfar removed from the old European stock.