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present-day Jews, that Judaism is a very late product. Even Moses
(even the name is not Hebrew) is, according to Egyptian
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representations, an escaped Egyptian priest named Osarsiph.
No, the Jew has not been "broken", the canal was completed
in its formation ever since the Exile and indeed already earlier, it
has only become stronger and more pronounced.
This instinctive aversion of Tolstoy, Schiller and Goethe,
to name only a few great men, every person must feel who has gone
closer into the Jewish intellectual products and has still preserved
his natural feeling: the above examples from the Talmud should
prompt one to do so. The Jew will describe us as "total Philistines",
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which we, according to Abraham Geiger, are completely, then
we are further branded by the disciples of Graetz as the "most limited
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of all peoples", but that cannot disturb us.
The technical mind

Let us investigate briefly the technical structure ofthe Jewish
mind.
It is indeed shameful, but nevertheless true, that the concept
of culture still has a very indefinite connotation in large circles and
is transferred to almost every phenomenon of life in an uncritical
manner. Today railways and poetry, aeroplanes and philosophy,
warm-water heating and philosophy belong to culture; here a
methodical differentiation is required.
With the word 'culture' one should designate only the
expressions of man that are the product (whether it be a felt or a
thought one) of a world-conception. To this belong religion,
philosophy, morality, art and science insofar as they are not purely
technical. The rest is trade, economy and industry, which I would

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On this see [Julius] Wellhausen and [Houston Stewart] Chamberlain. [Julius
Wellhausen (1844-1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist .]
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More details on this personality in Deussen, Die Philosophie der Bibel. [This
work forms Vol.II,2,i of Deussen's Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie (see
above p. 39.)]
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Nachgelassene Schriften, Vol.11, p. 242.
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Geschichte der Juden, Vol. VII, p. 367.
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