Historical voices

Thus it will be seen, that the persecution of the Jewish race has deprived European society of an important conservative element, and added to the destructive party an influential ally.

And all this because they wish to destroy that ungrateful Christendom which owes to them even its name, and whose tyranny they can no longer endure.

The people of God coöperate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe!

Their bias is to religion, property, and natural aristocracy: and it should be the interest of statesmen that this bias of a great race should be encouraged, and their energies and creative powers enlisted in the cause of existing society.

But though nature will never ultimately permit this theory of natural equality to be practised, the preaching of this dogma has already caused much mischief, and may occasion much more.

They are a living and the most striking evidence of the falsity of that pernicious doctrine of modern times--the natural equality of man.

They are the trustees of tradition and the conservators of the religious element.

The Jews represent the Semitic principle; all that is spiritual in our nature.

The Jewish race connects the modern populations with the early ages of the world, when the relations of the Creator with the created were more intimate than in these days, when angels visited the earth, and God himself even spoke with man.

That greatness results from its organization, the consequences of which are shown in its energy and enterprise, in the strength of its will and the fertility of its brain.

But the influence of a great race will be felt; its greatness does not depend upon its numbers, otherwise the English would not have vanquished the Chinese, nor would the Aztecs have been overthrown by Cortez and a handful of Goths.

All of which proves that it is in vain for man to attempt to battle the inexorable law of nature, which has decreed that a superior race shall never be destroyed or absorbed by an inferior.

The Jews, after all this havoc, are probably more numerous at this date than they were during the reign of Solomon the Wise, are found in all lands, and, unfortunately, prospering in most.

The world has by this time discovered that it is impossible to destroy the Jews.

Forty years ago--not a longer period than the children of Israel were wandering in the desert--the two most dishonoured races in Europe were the Attic and the Hebrew, and they were the two races that had done most for mankind.

It produces and represents as they did whatever is most beautiful in the spirit of man and often expresses what is most profound.

The music of modern Europe ranks with the transcendent creations of human genius; the poetry, the statues, the temples, of Greece.

Music seems to be the only means of creating the beautiful, in which we not only equal, but in all probability greatly excel, the ancients.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the beautiful is dead.

But the happiness of man is not merely material.

The creative faculty of modern man seems by an irresistible law at work on the virgin soil of science, daily increasing by its inventions our command over nature, and multiplying the material happiness of man.

We hesitate not to say that there is no race at this present, and following in this only the example of a long period, that so much delights, and fascinates, and elevates, and ennobles Europe, as the Jewish.

But, having made this full admission of the partial degradation of the Jewish race, we are not prepared to agree that this limited degeneracy is any justification of the prejudices and persecution which originated in barbarous or mediæval…

A man, however fallen, who loves his home is not wholly lost.