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essential dogginess. It is curious that Houston Chamberlain,
the most eloquent champion of the race-theory and the Teu-
tonic spirit, is himself an Englishman married to the daughter
of Wagner (alias Geier) and that with quasi-Semitic assimila-
tiveness he has written his book in German, after a career as a
writer in French.
   Not only is every race akin to every other but every people
is a hotch-potch of races. The Jews, though mainly a white
people, are not even devoid of a colored fringe, black, brown
or yellow.  There are the Beni-Israel of India, the Falashas
of Abyssinia, the disappearing Chinese Colony of Kai-Fung-
Foo, the Judeos of Loango, the black Jews of Cochin, the negro
Jews of Fernando Po, Jamaica, Surinam, etc., the Daggatuns
and other warlike nomads of the North African deserts who re-
mind us what the conquerors of the Philistines were like. If
the Jews are in no metaphorical sense brothers of all these
peoples, then all these peoples are brothers of one another.
If the Jew has been able to enter into all incarnations of hu-
manity and to be at home in every environment, it is because
he is a common measure of humanity. He is the pioneer by
which the true race-theory has been experimentally demon-
strated. Given a white child, it is the geographical and spirit-
ual heritage--the national autocosm, as I have called it-into
which the child is born that makes out of the common human
element the specific Frenchman, Australian, or Dutchman.
And even the color is not an unbridgeable and elemental dis-
tinction.
  Nor is it only with living races that the Jew has manifested his
and their mutual affinity, he brings home to us his brotherhood
and ours with the peoples that are dead, the Medes, the Baby-
lonians, the Assyrians. If the Jew Paul proved that the He-
brew Word was universal, the Jews who rejected his teaching
have proved the universality of the Hebrew race. One touch
of Jewry makes the whole world kin.
  The labors of Hercules sink into child's play beside the task
the late Dr. Herzl set himself in offering to this flotsam and
jetsam of history the project of political reorganization on a
single soil.  But even had this dauntless idealist secured co-




			

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 28, Num. 2

Volume:  28
Issue Number:  02
Date:  10/1911