Secondary schools Italy

Such politically driven revisions of the race concept became more urgent still as the fully horrific details of the fascist programs in Europe became known. In response to German and Italian state policies, for instance, a handbook for secondary school teachers (1939) pointed out that Mussolini s effort to drive the Jews out of Italy is impossible, because not even the foremost anthropologist could tell exactly whose ancestry is free of Jewish blood. 27 Likewise, Benedict s popular pamphlet The Races of Mankind (1943) insisted, Aryans, Jews, Italians are not races. 28... 

The years passed. Borodin went on to write fabulous pieces of music, while Mendeleev was destined to become one of the most renowned scientists in the world. The most important Italian scientific institutions, the Reale Accademia dei Lincei, based in the capital, nominated him as a Corresponding Member (1893). To this recognition was added that of the Reale Accademia delle Scienze of Turin (1893) and, some years later, the Accademia of Bologna (1901). In the early twentieth century, Mendeleev was extremely popular in Italy and his theory had widespread support among chemists in universities, in secondary schools, and even in the field of popular science. 

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