The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-04-19
formation on other points:

that "education consists in giving to
the body and the soul all the perfec-
ton of which they are susceptible
Therefore poor Israelite will sacri
flee everything he possesses in order
that his children may be educated. In
European countries, where it was not
possible to promote Jewish schools,
the Israelites,. whenever it. was per-
mitted, contributed freely to the
schools of other sects, to the end that
they might enjoy the benefit of educa
ting their youth therein, even at the
expense. of their religious conscience.
In the United States, however, it is
worthy of remark that, as we have
progressed in education, liberal laws,
and unrestricted liberty, the progress
and reforms of the Iraelites have been
commensurately achieved. 1t was re
served for this republic first to unveil
the obscurity and hermetic character
of Jewish education. 1t has not been
compelled to secrecy, as in medieval
and even modern times it existed in
Europe, and therefore has been thrown
open for public examination.
The American Israelite undoubtedly :
rejoices in our system of free schools,
and watches with anxiety and hope
the progress of American education.
He is grateful for the blessings of free
Government, and therefore is in ac-
cord with the wisdom of Aristotle, who
asserts that "the most effective way of
preserving a state is to bring up the
citizens in the spirit of the Govern
ment; to fashion, and, as it We're, to
cast them in the mould of the Con-
stitution."
JEWS AS CITIZENS.
1t is Hebrew education to insist that
inasmuch as the promoting of wise and
liberal government is the true aim of
e,iucation, so the Government, in re-
turn, should foster and conserve it as
the most important end to be attained,
and as contributing the greatest hap
Ipiness TO the masses. 1t therefore fell
lows that prominent educational re-
formers among the American Jews do
not consider 1t any longer absolutely
essential to the we'll being of their race
that they should educate their children
exclusively according to the old He
Sraic customs. They feel that they
are citizens of this Republic, entitled
to enjoy all of its blessings, to share in
its advantages and to contribute to its
wel-being. They believe that educa-
should be common and universal, but
leaving religious instruction to the caro-
of the different denominations. They
rejoice in tue existence of civil and re
ligious liberty, in the separation of
church and state, and in the enact
ment of recent laws which proclaim tho
obliteration of all distinctions of race
and condition, all being equal in citi-
zenship and receiving equal applica-
ton of the laws This is their pres
ent education.
MODERN HEBREW SCHOLARS.
Although the names of He
brew scholars are legion, it may not
be amiss to indicate a few In
later days may be mentioned the
names of Disraei, Cremienx, Monte
Gre, Borne, Auerbach. Heinrich, Hiehe,
Jules Janin, Grace Agu]iar, and Fould,
aud i'll the United States, Messrs Noah,
Raphael, Wise, Lilienthal, Lceser, Elm
horn and Isaacs, all noticed by modern
encyclopedias. To ennmerate the He
brew Talmudists, divinss, poets, phil
osophers, philologists, historians, pub
licists, linguists, mathematicians, as
tronomers, PSYCHOLOGISTS, ichtllyologists
, and orators of ancient and modern
days, would occupy too much space in
this necessarily limited "paper." Pol
itics, law, medicine, the fine arts, and
the drama have many representatives,
and in music .Meyerbeer, Halery, Herr
and Gottschalk have become as immor-
tai as has Rachel in traGedy. In fl
nance and commerce, special mention
, is absolutely unnecessary, for in these
essentials they lead the world.
JEWS AS AMERICAN BoNDHOLDERs.
' Although the Hebrews are not nat
urally politicians, they carefully note
a and give cOuntenance to every species
e of legislation, every doctrine of poiitl-
cal economy, and every public act cal
S culated to extend liberty and to diffust
, education. Nothing in this regard es
S capes them. The Hebrews Throughout
S Europe aud American purchased ou
!, bonds literally and aided in their ne
: collation., thus manifesting their con
It fidence in American securities. 1t i
: believed that they hold fully one fiftl
= of our outstanding Indebtedness il
/ Europe and America.
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