The New Gospel

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Other customs of the Jews are base and abominable, and owe their persistence to their depravity.&nbsp; For the worst rascals among other peoples [new converts], renouncing their ancestral religions, always kept sending tribute and contributions to Jerusalem, thereby increasing the wealth of the Jews; again, the Jews are extremely loyal toward one another, and always ready to show compassion, but toward every other people they feel only hate and enmity.&nbsp; They sit apart at meals, and they sleep apart, and although as a race, they are prone to lust, they abstain from intercourse with foreign women; yet among themselves nothing is unlawful.&nbsp; They adopted circumcision to distinguish themselves from other peoples by this difference.&nbsp; Those who are converted to their ways follow the same practice, and the earliest lesson they receive is to despise the gods, to disown their country, and to regard their parents, children and brothers as of little account.&nbsp; However, they take thought to increase their numbers; for they regard it as a crime to kill any late-born child, and they believe that the souls of those who are killed in battle or by the executioner are immortal.&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Jews, like the fratricide Cain, are doomed to wander about the earth as fugitives and vagabonds, and their faces must be covered with shame.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto have you rated me about my moneys and my usances: still have I born it with patient shrug, for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. … Fair sir, you spit upon me on Wednesday last; you spurn’d me such a day; another time you call’d me dog; and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys?&nbsp;</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">He [Antonio] hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my loses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason?&nbsp; I am a Jew. &nbsp; Hath not a Jew eyes?&nbsp; Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?&nbsp; If you prick us, do we not bleed?&nbsp; If you tickle us, do we not laugh?&nbsp; If you poison us, do we not die?&nbsp; And if you wrong us, do we not seek revenge?&nbsp; If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people.&nbsp; When he found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">The whole problem of the Jews exists only in the framework of [modern] nation states, since it is here that their energy and higher intelligence, their mental capital and capital of will, accumulated from generation to generation in a long school of suffering, must come to predominate to a degree that awakens envy and hatred.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race.&nbsp; It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.&nbsp; Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, and always been heard of.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.&nbsp; He has made a marvelous fight on this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him ... The Egyptian, the Babylonian, the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished.&nbsp; The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.&nbsp; All things are mortal but the Jews; all other forces pass, but he remains.&nbsp; What is the secret of his immortality?</em></p>