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would be an ideal condition, presumably—the merging together of Jew and gentile, for the production of a world neither wholly gentile nor yet dual with Jew and gentile—but composed of both in certain proportions fixed by our numbers and the laws of heredity. That is, at least, the best solution within view, and if we are to be reasonable—on paper at least—it would be the only one to be considered.

But we must remember that this ideal cannot be realized in one generation or in two, or in five. If we were to assume (the assumption is an absurd one) that within this generation the Jewish world could be won over to this point of view, it would still need four or five generations (probably more) to obliterate our identity. At that it would call 196