Page 196 - beyond-good-and-evil

tives concerning the future, calculate upon the Jews, as he
will calculate upon the Russians, as above all the surest and
likeliest factors in the great play and battle of forces. That
which is at present called a ‘nation’ in Europe, and is really
rather a RES FACTA than NATA (indeed, sometimes con-
fusingly similar to a RES FICTA ET PICTA), is in every case
something evolving, young, easily displaced, and not yet a
race, much less such a race AERE PERENNUS, as the Jews
are such ‘nations’ should most carefully avoid all hotheaded
rivalry and hostility! It is certain that the Jews, if they de-
sired—or if they were driven to it, as the anti-Semites seem
to wish—COULD now have the ascendancy, nay, literally
the supremacy, over Europe, that they are NOT working
and planning for that end is equally certain. Meanwhile,
they rather wish and desire, even somewhat importunely, to
be insorbed and absorbed by Europe, they long to be finally
settled, authorized, and respected somewhere, and wish to
put an end to the nomadic life, to the ‘wandering Jew’,—and
one should certainly take account of this impulse and ten-
dency, and MAKE ADVANCES to it (it possibly betokens
a mitigation of the Jewish instincts) for which purpose it
would perhaps be useful and fair to banish the anti-Semitic
bawlers out of the country. One should make advances with
all prudence, and with selection, pretty much as the Eng-
lish nobility do It stands to reason that the more powerful
and strongly marked types of new Germanism could en-
ter into relation with the Jews with the least hesitation, for
instance, the nobleman officer from the Prussian border it
would be interesting in many ways to see whether the ge-

1