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 mit Christians to be the equals of Jews in commercial knowledge or skill. I affirm my belief, with equal fearlessness, that this inequality will continue, and my nation will suffer in Hungary, and in Poland and Russia, until Christians shall acquire for themselves that knowledge of legal detail, and the internal mechanism of financial order that shall enable them to cope with Jews on an equality So soon as the Russian shall exchange accurate knowledge for vodki; and the Pole shall substitute the growing tendency in his nation, which I observe is now beginning, to dream of tutelary supernaturalism, for the study of the natural facts that beneficent nature presents everywhere, we shall find the Jews have a harder struggle to reach wealth than they now encounter.

“No Jew ever dreams of staring at a picture in order to cure an ulcer; or applies to dry bones, whether of skull or hand, to remove a mortgage bond from his farm. Let the nations study to apply remedies that are suited to the occasion; and mankind shall then be in line to act in co-operation with the processes of nature, of which our constitution forms the culminating part. When men shall learn thus to place themselves side by side in the common obedience to natural laws, and shall instruct themselves in the qualities of objects in food, medicinal plants, light, air, water and the effects of natural processes, then shall the Jew and the Christian tive in harmony together; and the government of states shall be but the clerical procedure to administer their organized au-