they do alter, in the same way that the Russian Empire makes its conquest⁠—as an empire that has plenty of time and is not of yesterday⁠—namely, according to the principle, “as slowly as possible”! A thinker who has the future of Europe at heart, will, in all his perspectives concerning the future, calculate upon the Jews, as he will calculate upon the Russians, as above all the surest and likeliest factors in the great play and battle of forces. That which is at present called a “nation” in Europe, and is really rather a res facta than nata (indeed, sometimes confusingly similar to a res ficta et picta ), is in every case something evolving, young, easily displaced, and not yet a race, much less such a race aere perennus , as the Jews are: such “nations” should most carefully avoid all hotheaded rivalry and hostility! It is certain that the Jews, if they desired⁠—or if they were driven to it, as the anti-Semites seem to wish⁠— could