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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of.

He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

-- Harper's Magazine, September 1899

[bob]

Great quote, movinghand. It should also be remembered that MT was writing at a time when antisemitism in the USA and Europe was as natural to the governing classes as drinking champagne.

But I expect nothing less from an author who so sensitively explored the interactions between black and white in Huckleberry Finn. Jim is so different to Uncle Tom!
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[bush badee]

There is much more to MT than just that one quote.
He wrote in his book "Innocents Abroad" how empty Palistine was at the time.
He writes that he traveled some 60 miles between two towns and never saw a single person in the entire trip.
He writes of the emptyness of the land and the desolation , caused by the arab goats and the train to mecca.


Thusly "A land empty of people for a People with out land"
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