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Show iTrfE SUFFERINGS AND CEHIUS ! OF THE JtWS. ! That wonderful woman, George j Eiiot, fi!.ys: "If there are ranks in suffering, Israel takes precedence ot ! ail the nations; it the duration of sor- rows and tlio patience with which :they have been borne enobie, the i Jews are among the aristocracy of i every land; if a literaturo is called i rich in the possession of" a few classic I tragedies, what shall we say of a I national tragedy lasting for fifteen ! hundred years, in which the poeU land the actors were also the heruco I The author of "Daniel Deronda 'discusses the history, sufluru:g and 'genius of the Jewish people at very lyreat length through Mordeou, the ijow and wo transfer lo tUe-se columns afeffol the thoughts of this gifted writer upon a subject concerning which there exists so much prejudice without knowledge. It having been said by one of her characters to another that the Jews have "no de-volopmeul de-volopmeul in them," and that ihey are "Hie type of obstinate adheranco to the superunuated," Mordecai regents re-gents the imputation and is mado to 8ft"This is false. Let their histoiy be known UEid examined; let the Beed be sifted, lot its begin.uug be traced to the weed of the wilderness the more glorious will be tho energy that transformed trans-formed it. Where elso is there a nation of whom it may bu as truly said that their religion and law aud moral lifo mingled as the stream of blood in tho heart and made ono growth whero elso a people who kept and enhuged their spiritual stores at th very lime they were hunted with a hatred as fierce as tho i forest lirea that chasa tho wild beaatj from his covert?" ! "Hooted and scared like an unowned dog, the Hobrow made bimsoll enviod i for iiis WGaltb and wisdom, and was bled of them to nil the bath of I Gentile luxury; he absorbed knowl- I edge; he dillused it; his dispersed race waB a now Phoenicia working j the mines of Greece and carrying their products to the world. The native spirit of our tradition was not to stand Siill, but to use records as a seed, and draw out the compressed virtues of law and prophecy; and while the Gentile who had Baid, "What iB yours is ours, and no longer yours," was reading the letter of law as a dark inscription, or was turning its parchments into shoe soles for an army rabid with lust and cruelty, our masters were still enlarging and illuminating with fresh-led interpretation. interpre-tation. But the dispersion was wide, the yoke of oppression was a spiked torture na well as a load; the exile waB forced afar among brutish people. peo-ple. What wonder that multitudes of eui people are ignorant, naiiow, superstitious? super-stitious? "What wonder? The right is unto them that they have no vision; in their darkness they are unable to divine; the sun is gone down over the prophets, and the day is dark above them; their observances are as name-lees name-lees relics. But which among the chief of the Gentile nation has not an ignorant multitude? They scorn our people's ignorant observance; but the most accursed ignorance is that which has no observance, sunk to the cunning cun-ning greed of the fox, to which all law is no more than a trap or the cry of the worrying hound. In the multitudes of the ignorant on three continents who observe our rites and make the confession of the divine unity, the soul of Judaism is is not dead. Revive the organic centre; let the unity of Israel which has made the growth and form of its religion be an outward reality. Looking towards a land and a polity, our displeased people in all the lands of the earth may share the dignity of a national life which has a voice among the people of the east and the west which will plant the wisdom and skill of our race so that it may be as of old, a medium of transmission and understanding." tt "I Bay that the effest of our sep-arateness sep-arateness will not be completed and have its highest transformation unless our race takes on again tho character of a nationality. That is the fulfilment fulfil-ment of the religious trust that moulded them into a people, whose file has made half the inspiration of the world. What is to me thut the ten tribes are lost untraceably, or that multitudes ot tho children of Judah havo mixed tht-msclves with the Gentile populations as a river with rivers? Behold-our people stilil Their skirts spread afar; tn.ey are torn and ' soiled and trodden; but there ia a jeweled breastplate. Let the wealthy men, the monarclis of commerce, the learned in all knowledge, the skilled in all arts, the speakers, the political counselors, who carry in 1 ineir veins the Hebrew blood whicl 1 hag maintained its vigor in al climates, and the pliancy of Hebrew genius for which difficulty meani new device let them say, we wil li!t up a standard, we will unite in t labor hard hut glorious, like that ol Moses and Ezra, a labor which shall be a worthy fruit of the long anguish whereby our fathers maintained their separateness, refusing, the ease of falsehood. They havo wealth enough to redeem the soil from debauched and paupered conquerors; they have the skill of the statesman to deviso, the tongue of the orator to persuade. And is there no prophet or poet among us to make the ears of Christian Chris-tian Europe tingle with shame at the hideous obloquy of Christian strife which the Turk gazes at as at the hghLmg of hearts to which ho has ! lent au arena? There is a store ol wisdom among us to found a new Jewish polity, grand, simple, just, hke the old-a republic where there is equality of protection, an equality Which shone like a star on the fore-ncad fore-ncad of our ancient community nnd gave it more than the the brightness of western freedom amidst the depo-tisms depo-tisms of the east." |