Alfred P. Schultz

Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz (born 1878) was a German American author and physician, who had his practice in Monticello, New York. He arrived from Germany with his family when he was ten years old. Race or Mongrel was a favorite of novelist Jack London which he heavily marked and annotated.

Some thought the public schools could be an important mechanism of assimilation, since they removed children from their parents’ influence and put them into a controlled environment where they would play with and learn from American children. Some thought this could work with adults as well, as was symbolized by the mandatory graduation ceremony for the English classes offered in Henry Ford’s factories. Workers dressed in traditional garb marched into a large “melting pot” on stage, only to come out in American clothing. Others with more racially based ideas of culture disagreed. As eugenics expert Alfred P. Schultz wrote in his 1908 book, Race or Mongrel?, “the opinion is advanced that the public schools change the children of all races into Americans. Put a Scandinavian, a German, and Magyar boy in at one end, and they will come out Americans at the other. Which is like saying, let a pointer, a setter, and a pug enter one end of a tunnel and they will come out three greyhounds. [...] Nature prevents the development of the mongrel; in the few cases in which nature has for the time being successfully been outraged and a mongrel produced, nature degrades that mongrel mercilessly and in time stamps it out. Nature suffers no mongrel to live. [...] The intermarriage of people of one colour with people of another colour always leads to deterioration."

Race or Mongrel (Table of Contents)

• I. The Mongrel in Nature
• II. The Mongrel in History
• III. The Hamites in India
• IV. The Chaldeans
• V. The Phoenicians
• VI. The Carthaginians
• VII. The Egyptians
• VIII. The Jews
• IX. The Gipsies
• X. The Hindoos
• XI. Hellas
• XII. The Greeks
• XIII. The Pan-European Mongrel in Rome
• XIV. Sicily
• XV. The Lombards in Italy
• XVI. Heredity and Language
• XVII. Race Problems in German Lands
• XVIII. The South American Mongrel
• XIX. The Monroe Doctrine
• XX. The Yellow Races
• XXI. The Anglo-Saxons
• XXII. The Anglo-Saxons in America
• XXIII. Immigration: Who in America?
• XXIV. Immigration: Men or the Balance-sheet?
• XXV. Immigration: Anglo-Saxons and Germans
• XXVI. Immigration: The German-Americans
• XXVII. Immigration: The Pan-European in America
• XXVIII. The American Negro
• XXIX. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

Works

• Race or Mongrel, L. C. Page & company, Boston 1908 (text)
• The Children of Everybody, c. 1910
• The End of Darwinism, Monticello, New York 1911

See also

• Madison Grant