Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper’s Magazine, March, 1898
If statistics are Jews consist but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dusts 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 way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
He has made marvelous flight in this world, in all ages, and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself and be excused for it.
The Egyptian, and the Persian and the Babylonian rose, filled the earth with sound and splendor, then faded to dream stuff and passed away, the Greek and the Roman followed, and madea vast noise, and they are gone, Other people have sprung and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jewsw them all and beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmness of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.
All these things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?
Perhaps Jewish author Max I. Dimont, the author of the Indestructible Jews has the answer??
Jewish history consists of an unique series of events –accidental or purposive - which have the practical effective of preserving the Jews as Jews in “exile” to fulfill their avowed mission of ushering the brotherhood of man.
We contend that this exile is not a punishment for sins, but a key factor in Jewish survival. Instead of having doomed the Jews to extinction, it funneled them into freedom.
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As long as the Jews stick to the ethics of the Torah (the Mosaic Law) and the ideology of the Prophets, they will remain indestructible. When all men embrace this ethic and ideology,,they too, will symbolically become Jewish. There will then be only man.
