THE JEWISH CHRONICLE 16 What Does the World Owe the Jew? (Continued from Page 7) 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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