The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.
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Ur-race
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Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.
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“Aryanism” broadened but also still racialized ideas about the origins of civilization by incorporating all speakers of Indo-European languages, including Indian speaker of Sanskrit-based tongues, into a single, civilizing ur-race, as in Sir Henry Maine's Taming Cannibals.
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