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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

through war and revolution), and also his simplicity, clumsiness,
and trustworthiness, all factors that have been always to the Jew a
thorn in the eye, which he always sought to undermine, about which
he made thoughtless jokes and considered himself always superior
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as the classical saying of the Jew Auerbach expresses it: "We
Jews are indeed the most intelligent race. Take a trashy Jew from
Poland clad in rags and place the most intelligent peasant from the
Black Forest in front of him, whom would you decide in favour of?
Certainly the Jew, for the German peasant is stupid, the most rotten
Jew, on the other hand, is still a Jew". That is even today the
instinctive or conscious avowal of all Hebrews.
The Jew has always hated the German people. To be sure,
he does not love the French and Anglo-Saxons either, but he feels
much closer to them. The vain and increasingly more superficial
Frenchman, the sober Anglo-Saxon who at the same time tends to
bigoted superstitions are far more congenial characters to the Jew
than the German can ever be in spite of all attempts at ingratiation.
Thus one has been able, since the earliest times, to make the
observation that the German Jews are the bitterest enemies of
German thought; and the more they strive for it and nourish
themselves on it, the more clearly does the hatred emerge. That is
why a Heinrich Heine could rise with regard to Goethe to the
reproach of moral cowardice; 201 that is why a Ludwig Borne
calculated the beginning of German freedom from the death of
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Goethe; that is why all Jewish journalists and professors try to
diminish our great men, to "describe them objectively", as this
falsification is called; that is why they in one voice run down the
mind of Bismarck; that is why Professor Graetz, enthusiastically
praised by all Jews, summarised his judgement on the Germans by
saying that the Germans are "the inventors of the low slave-
mentality" and that the Germans owe "refined taste, the vital, reckless
feeling for the truth and the impulse to freedom to the two Jews
Heine and Borne". Of all people to Heinrich Heine!

200 [Berthold Auerbach (1812-1 882) was a German Jewish novelist.]
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[See below p. 173]
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[Ludwig Borne ((ne Loeb Baruch) (1 786-1 837) was a German Jewish political
satirist who moved to Paris after the July Revolution of 1830; cf. p. 173 below]
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