"At the Root" by H.P. Lovecraft (1918)

Well, this is going to make a certain class of people pretty unhappy, but not the type of people that most of us care about anyways, so whatever :-P

Of course, even outside the scope of such types of people, Lovecraft's proposal, in view of subsequent events, can certainly be subjected to much debate. It is in-line with the ideas presented in "Starship Trooper", so he may not be entirely wrong, but it's also not obvious that he is correct either. Well, he is correct that humans are gonna human regardless, but what to do about that? We still haven't figured that out a century later.

"Trans-Rhenane" - "across" and "Rhine", so: from the eastern side of the Rhine, i.e. Germany.

Renascence - revival so something that has been dormant.

The picture used is just a WW1 propaganda poster.

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