Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... the same God, draw inspiration from the same spiritual anl literary sources, but when this general fact is made specific by environment, we discover differences that can not be overcome in a night. The nationalization of the Jew predicates the possibility of his denationalization, and it is reasonable to inquire, first, whether that is possible; secondly, whether it is desirable. The picture may be alluring, but humanly speaking, it will take centuries to draw and consummate it. It may be possible to denationalize our people everywhere, and subsequently nationalize them; but the time, the time it will lake! Let history speak for itself. Consider the facts, not ideally, but as they are, --how old is the English nation? How many centuries between the Roman Conquest and the Wars of the Roses before the Englsh people lost the consciousness of being cut up in factions, that is to say, before it attained a national consciousness? And yet, originally, Normans. Danes, Saxons, Anglos, were of a common stock, common enough to acknowledge the affinities of blood, language, genius and religion. How old is the French nation? How many centuries from Charlemagne to Louis XIV., the first monarch who might really be said to govern a nation endowed with genius, as may be proved by the corresponding birth of the..classical era in French literature? A Shakespeare represents the expression of a national genius; and so are Racine. Moliere, Corneille and La Fountaine--to mention these only--the expressons of a national genius that required half a millennium in the making. "Rome was not built in a day" is a trite expression that presents the forcible historical suggestion that the Roman nation--if the latter word might he applied to the handful that subjugated...