...the German hymn, "Ein feste burg ist unser Gott." X Euripides makes Iphigenia say, "It is fitting the Greeks should rule over barbarians, but not contrariwise,...Greeks are free and barbarians are slaves." The Arabs regard themselves as the noblest nation and all others as more or less barbarous, and so late as 1896...

...myths the origin of their own tribe is that of the real human race. They do not account for the others. The Jews divided all mankind into themselves and Gentiles....the noblest nation and all others as more or less barbarous. In 1896, the Chinese minister of education edited a manual in which this statement occurs:...

...work here is William Graham Sumner's Folkways, originally published in 1906. See, eg, id. at 14-15: "The Jews divided all mankind into themselves and...Greeks and Romans called all outsiders 'barbarians.' In Euripedes' tragedy of Iphigenia in Aulis Iphi^enia says that it is fitting that Greeks should rule...

...alia, our diametric exemplars: "The Jews [presumably meaning the Israelites, as shown by the tenses] divided all mankind into themselves and Gentiles....Greeks and Romans called all outsiders 'barbarians'" (ibid.: 14). In homologizing the tags cited, the Israelite and the Greco-Roman, he fails to distinguish...

...Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization, 256. Emphasis in the original. The passage in Sumner reads in part, The Jews divided all mankind into themselves and Gentiles....Greeks and Romans called all outsiders "barbarians." Each state now regards itself as the leader of civilization, the best, the freest, and the wisest,...