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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER TO THE THIRD EDITION

WHEN this book was first published fifteen years ago, the things it had to say were new to the English public. The Jewish question had never been properly discussed or understood. For most people it did not exist.

This was less true of the English-speaking world as a whole. In the United States, and particularly in the town of New York, the Jewish question was ever present and at times acute; but it...

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It insisted on “liquidating” those who had inherited or acquired the habit of control under the old Christian society: not only those who were themselves in possession of machinery and lands and reserves of necessaries — not only capitalists, that is — but all educated men who, though themselves — proletarian and possessed of nothing, sympathized with the traditions of Christian society; for these traditions include the right to property and the independence of the family....

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Transformed thus during the last few months, this condition of affairs has, to use a metaphor taken from the Great War, “crystallized”. Reinforcements in men and material continue to reach both sides, but the revolutionary side is more constantly supplied than the other. On the other hand, that half of the Spanish navy which joined the revolutionaries became incompetent through the murder of its officers, and the other half which joined the nationalists or insurgent...

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I do not mean “ Is the Nazi action towards the Jews a just solution or not?” for it is not a solution at all. I mean rather “Will the effects proceeding from this sudden piece of radical reform make towards a final equitable result?”

There is no doubt that the Nazi attack was sincere. There is no doubt that in the eyes of its authors it was provoked by a situation which they thought intolerable.

But can it be fruitful?

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Perhaps the two most practical considerations in connection with this department of our subject are: (1) How long the, present German drive against the Jews can last, and (2) How widespread and profound will be the inevitable reactions against it outside Germany.

If you adopt an irrational attitude you are challenging the human race. You are at the best making yourself ridiculous and at the worst making yourself impossible. Further you are buying ₤1...

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