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heathens there is no wife, they are not really their wives," this
signifies a legally authorised robbery of all peoples. All the usury,
all the fraud practised through the centuries on the peoples of the
world is therefore not to be considered as an aberration but, on the
contrary, the following of the laws of the Sinai and the Talmud
scholars.
That is why Luther wrote indignantly on this matter, that is
why Goethe said of the Jews: "They have a religion which allows
them to rob foreigners", that is why Fichte cried out in despair: "Let
the Jews continue not to believe in Jesus Christ, let them not believe
in any god at all, as long as they do not believe in two different
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moral laws and a god hostile to humanity".
So when one attacks the Jews that does not happen in order
to gag freedom ofthought, as they always maintain with indignation,
but in order to launch an attack on a system of laws that runs directly
counter to those of all states. It must be established once and for all
that a race with this legal feeling cannot be able to do justice to that
of the Europeans and that, consequently, the Jews must for ever be
refused influence through the public offices occupied by them, for
a Jewish judge cannot and may not act otherwise than to protect
and defend, always and everywhere, only the Jews.
Naive enthusiasts of humanitarianism maintain now that
the Jewish laws are, in our progressive age, things of the past. To
that it is to be countered that almost 9 million Jews, that is, two-
thirds ofthe entire Jewry ofthe world, are still the strictest followers
of the Talmud. That is why the laws of all states have always been
to the Jew a thorn in his eye and he has constantly tried to counteract
them or explain them with Talmudic sharpness for his own goals.
That is why we see also that the Jews have seldom tried to obtain
admission as citizens into all occupations but always aimed at
extracting exceptional conditions and laws for themselves. The laws
of a land of course prevented the Jews in the exercice of their

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Sanhedrin, fol.81a,b.
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[Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1 814) was one ofthe founders of German Idealism.
This remark is from Fichte's 1 793 pamphlet "Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urtheile
des Publicums uber die franzijsische Revolution" (A contribution to the correction
ofthe public opinion on the French Revolution".]
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