continues to exist. Where is there a people which for the last two thousand years has shown so little change in internal characteristics as the Jewish race ? What race, in fact, has been involved in greater revolutionary changes than that one, and yet has sur¬ vived intact after the most terrific catastrophes ? How their determined will to live and to maintain the type is expressed by these facts !
The Jew’s intellectual qualities were developed in the course of centuries. To-day we think him “cun¬ ning”, and in a certain sense it was the same at every epoch. But his intellectual capacity is not the result of personal development, but of education by foreigners.
Thus since the Jew never possessed a culture of his own, the bases of his intellectual activity have always been supplied by others. His intellect has in all periods been developed by contact with surrounding civilizations. Never the opposite.
It is utterly incorrect to point to the fact that the Jews hold together in struggling with their fellow-men —or rather in plundering them—and conclude from it that they have a certain ideal of self-sacrifice.
Even in this the Jew is guided by nothing more nor less than pure self-seeking ; and that is why the Jewish State—which is supposed to be the living organism for maintaining and increasing a race—is entirely without frontiers. For the conception of a State with definite boundaries always implies the idealistic sentiment of a race within the State, also a proper conception of the meaning of work as an idea. The masses, which have not this conception, lack ambition to form or even main¬ tain a State with definite boundaries. There is thus no basis on which a culture may be built up.
Thus, the Jewish nation, with all its obvious intel¬ lectual qualities, has no real culture—certainly none peculiar to itself. For whatever culture the Jew appears to possess to-day is in the main the property of other peoples, which has become corrupted under his manipulation.