THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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What Does the World Owe the
Jew?
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literature, either in fullness, variety
or beauty. This, rather than the
line arts, has been our natural
mode of expression.
\\'e see, then, that we have con-
tributed to the Christian world one
anthropomorphic God, Jesus Christ,
a moral didactic, and ;i noble liter-
ature. Is there anything else? Oc-
casionally it is said that the Jewish
ideal of family life has been a bea-
con light to other people. This I
doubt. \Ve find highly organized
family life among ancient Greeks,
Romans . , and Germans; it is a unit
which grmvs• with the development
of all nations. Ties of blood and
affection arc not necessarily Jewish
and existed long before contact
with Judaism.
\Ve are accustomed to point \vith
pride to renowned Jews of modern-
ity, and we have every reason to do
so. We have distinguished our-
selves in almost every line, and had
not our development been checked
to some extent throughout the later
ages we should have contributed
even more. Music, literature, med-
icine, philosophy', statescraft, all
these fields of learning and service
offer Its examples of great Jews.
In the sense that we have contrib-
uted much in these line we can
claim recoo.-ti... But it must be
remembered. that qtlr it 1,, ork was tilc
work of individuals, and - no longer,
as in the past ages, the work of a
unified people. There has been no
distinctively Jewish note struck in
these efforts. They have taken on
the color of tiwir times and coun-
tries; they have been a contribution
to the work of many nations.
Besides sharing in the work of
other nations we have been greatly
benefited by it. We do not often
hear of what the Christian world
leas contributed to the Jew, but this
is not little by any manner of
means. In the first place the liberal
forms Of government were devel-
oped by Christian people, or rather,
by people who subsequently became
so. With respect to ruling we do
not find much capacity for organ-
ization shown ill the Old Testament.
Our various forms were similar to
those found in the eastern sections
of the world today, the constitu-
tional form of government as we
know it being distinctly a product
of Greece, Rome, and the more
hardy peoples of the north.
I do not think we ever quite
realize just how witch of the world
has been fashioned by the younger
European nations. What we call
modernity is essentially their work.
This is the age of iron and steel
and science; the age of objectivists
rather than subjectivists, the age of
people still on the Upward bound,
virile, thoroughly worldv, and stim-
ulated. by as yet unsatisfied ambi-
tion. We have been ciirried on the
wave of progress with these
younger peoples. Because we as a
nation had never reached the top of
our bound, and because we have
taken our place amongst these other
nations WC, too, are for the most
part, young again. We might have
remained in Asia Minor and become
a little, old nation—a nation of
poets, dreamers, and dealers in
ideas; in view of our ancient tem-
perament and the subsequent fate
of our original eastern neighbors,
such a course would rather have to
be expected. Doubtless there are
some among us who would prefer
this fate for Israel, but 1 for one
am a Jew who would rather take•
his place among the nations of the
north, destined climatically for a
different civilization. Science could
never have developed in Palestine:
the weather there is too warm.
So it would seem that we arc in-
debted to Christian nations for
most of our modern development
In a sense this is true. The ques-
tion is, how much have we aided
them in their progress by our re-
ligious and moral contribution ?
We have every reason to suppose
very greatly, because while it is per
fectly true that these nations had, in
the beginning, climatic advantages,
still they did embrace Christianity, •
and with it the Old Testament.
Further, the new religion acted as a
common ground between them ; and
being essentially merciful in its
character anyway, undoubtedly
tended to promote peace, hence in-
opr; ft., v
internal development, among what
otherwise would have been so many
barbarian tribes. In such manner
the world moved just a little nearer
to the idea of the universal brother-
hood of man which, while seem-
ingly tt the present moment as re-
mote as ever from fulfillment, must
he put down as the noblest ideal of
all times. Finally, only through
easy means of intercourse and com-
munication can nations approach
real semblance of mutual trust and
it was the nations coming under our
influence who provided those
means.
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