"The real founder of racial theory was the Frenchman Gobineau, a subtle thinker and writer of the aristocratic type, to whom crude anti-Semitism, like any rudeness in general, was alien. He was the real creator of the myth about the chosen Aryan race and the great mission of the Germans, who, however, , in his opinion, ceased to be a pure race. For him, the theory of racial inequality was, first of all, the justification of the aristocratic idea, the justification of aristocratic culture. Gobineau, unlike modern German racists, was a pessimist and taught about the irreversible decadence of races and cultures." (N. A. Berdyaev "Philosophy of a free spirit")