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Is
the National Jew a Chauvinist?
The
national idea has, in its extravagances, deteriorated in different
directions. It has been distorted into Chauvinism, transformed into an
imbecile hatred of foreigners, besotted into grotesque self-deification.
Jewish nationalism is quite secure from these self-caricatures. The Jewish
nationalist does not suffer from vanity; on the contrary, he feels that he
must put forth unremitting effort to render the, name of Jew a name of
honour. He discreetly recognises the good qualities of other nations,
and eagerly strives to acquire them so far as they harmonise with his
natural powers. He knows what terrible injuries have been wrought upon his
originally proud and upright character by centuries of slavery and denial
of rights, and he endeavours to heal them by strenuous self-education. But
while Jewish nationalism is secure from distortion, it, more-over, is a
natural phase of the process of development from barbarian self-seeking
individualism to the status of noble manhood and altruism, a phase the
justification and necessity of which can be denied only by him who knows
nothing of the laws of organic evolution and is utterly void of historical
sense.