It is true that his race and religion are indissolubly connected, but whatever be the cause of this junction of the race idea with the religion, it is very certain that the religion alone does not constitute the people. A believer in the Jewish faith does not by reason of that fact become a Jew. On the other hand, however, a Jew by birth remains a Jew, even though he abjures his religion. A Jew belongs to his race and consequently also to Judaism, in spite of the fact that he or his ancestors have become apostates. Every Jew is, whether he likes it or not, solidly united with the entire nation.
Jewish religion is, above all, Jewish patriotism.
To deny Jewish nationality you must deny the existence of the Jew. The idea that Jews are a religious sect, precisely parallel to Catholics and Protestants, is nonsense. You can more easily see that a Jew is a Jew than that an Englishman is an Englishman. Not only a nation with a past, but a nation with a future. Hess, complaining of the inequalities visited upon the Jews, was saying that what the individual Jew could not get because he was a Jew, the Jewish Nation would be able to get because it would be a nation.