The Jewish advance., 1881-04-29
CHICAGO, APRIL 80, 1881.

view only extended to practical things
lying near him and was not always able
to discern deceptive appearances from
reality. knowledge did not flow into his
mind in great profusion, as was the
case with Heine, but he had to search
for it and whatever was outside Of his
heart did not exist for him. Since his
mind commenced to ripen, he looked
upon the Jews only as upon money-bags
and men of arithmetical figures, like
those on the Frankfort Exchange, or he
took them to be scoffers of religion with
paroxismal fancies for Christianity; who
were ashamed of their descent, like
those in the salon of Henriette Herr.
His education made Judaism so despi-
cable to him that he did not consider it
worth while to engage in its study and
for all these reasons he had no sympa-
thy with the things considered by the
Jews most holy, also by the family Of
Rothschild, which he so much abused.
He was even unable to understand his
own mental constitution, to discern what
part of his nature was formed by gen.
eral cultivation and what part by Juda-
ism.
His sound mind however and his love
for the oppressed guarded him against
becoming unprincipled like Rachel, her
fFbrother Robert, the poet, the whole
fBerlin salon and many others. who
burned their backs contemptuously to
Ethe Jews. not deeming it worthy their
while to do something for them or even
to sympathise with them. Yet in his
youth the very thought that the dis
graceful word jew" might be thrown
up in his face. made him furious.
when they yet come and toll you that
you are a jew he wrote in his diary--
| add how thag slap JesxsS-qsstise mouth
that one might burst laughing 20,
when I think Of that, a violent storm
RACES in my heart; the soul would like
to break forth from it's abode to seek
for itself the body of lion, to be able
to fall on the impudent with claw and
teeth" And his anticipation that he
would not be spared this disgrace, and
that his lions paw would he challenged,
proved correct a year later, by that
time student, as he was taking out
travelling pass from the police Office Of
Frankfort, deformed scribbler wrote
into it: Jew of Frankfort. my blood
stood still,- he wrote-yet [ dared
neither say nor do anything, for my
father was present. Then [ vowed in
my heart: Only wait little; will at
no distant time write pass for all of
you.
BGRNE's LOVE OF LIBERTY.
For short time it seemed as though
Berne was capable Of Forgetting his
oath. The Jews of Frankfort had
bought the rights Of equality for large
sum of money and Boerne, who had in
the meantime studied law, awakening
great expectations with his first intel
lectual productions, was one of the first
appointed to office in the Frankfort
Police department. His highly ambitious
spirit and his impulse of liberty would
perhaps have been buried in the dust
Of the official documents, had not the
hating insolence of the Frankfort
patricians provoked him. Borne felt
the disgrace of Germany after the we'll
deserved defeat at Jena just as deeply
as the Tugendbuemdler and he worked
out an address to the Jews, in which he
probably called upon them to bring
patriotic sacrifices, but the censor sup
pressed it on account of it's being too ex-
citable.
(Io be Conttnued)
The Music of the Bible.