The Jewish advance., 1881-08-26

BY MISS NINA MORALS.

Aversion to the foreigner is an in,
stinct of the human heart The street
boy who stones the harmless Chinese,
represents the normal dislike of the un-
tutored mind for the man who differs
The feeling which is the basis of the
closest human relations-th feeling of
sympathy-is but the reverse of the an
tipathy experienced against the posses
sor of opposite views. To the savage
the creature whose conduct varies from
his own, is Of another species Classic
civilization found the stranger the bar
barian Medieval crusaders attacked as
barbaric the richest culture of the age
In more modern times, the volatile
Frenchman bore no affection for the
shop-keeper across the Channel, and
the phlegmatic Saxon showed little dis
position to love his Latin neighbor
In the light of closer knowledge the
causes which foster hatred of the for
eigner are being rapidly removed. The
extension of social communion teaches
US that our range of experience is not
the only possible one. Truth becomes
relative, and no longer are we alone in
fallible. The multiplication and dihu-
sion of literature acquaints nations with
the inner life Of each other; steam sH7
electricity disclose a common resem }
ance beneath the superficial differenca~
of peoples. The loud-voiced thunder 0i
the locomotive, the silent tremblings of
the mid ocean cable. preach the br0the.
hood 01 man.
And 50 We seek in strange lands and
.p foreign tongues thc traces 9i IL =
common 5iJJber}lo0a Gautama Bud
Uha az more an aeeuaed pretender Il
an inspired prophet His deeds sweIl
The poetry ot Il nation far removed fro
his own in psychological tendencies
Mohammed, once crazy impostor, is
soul possessed with the divine frenzy Of
a seer. The hand of fellowship is ox-
tended to the quondam infdel.
Why is the Jew still excluded fram
the brotherhood of humanity? He is no
distant creature, to be idealized. He is
colonized with such power in Aryan
countries as to make the Pharaohnic
rulers dread the multiplication of He
brew resources. A divergence in reli-
gion, in physique, in mental habits, may
be tolerated, but it must know it's place,
and not compete successfully in the
mart and in the college with the apostles
of humanity. The dweller of the Rhine
would probably lose some of his vaunted
love for his brother of the Ganges did
that brother show any disposition to
encroach upon the soil Of united Ger
many. Common brotherhood has not
reached the point of forgetfulness of
m1euna and tuun1. ~ Gu are my brother"
cries the tolerant philosopher of to-day,
but only so long as you keep your dis
tance. Come nearer show any DISPOSE
ton to take from me my philosophic
laurels or my unphilosophic gains, and
[ denounce you as scourge and a
plague"
But whatever may be the excuse in
other countries, America has no extenu-
alton for antipathy to the stranger. The
American people is not a nation that
traces long line of ancestry to an abo-
riginal root America is the scrap bag
of the world. The nations have contrib
uted. aud do still contribute, to form a
motley population, from which new
people is to arise. In the first century
of it's existence American institutions
developed no original form peculiar to
only now assuming a native air; and
SCHOOlS VI AuCllCdll pilIIooOpHys luuSlC
and art are aspirations of the future.
The first settlers of the whether
Catholic Protestant, or Puritan, Gaul,
Celt, or Saxon-were, indeed Aryan and
Christian; but any common right based
upon the bonds Of Aryanism or Chris
tianity would, until the present day,
have been considered absurd, To the
colonial Puritan, Roger Williams was the
foreigner as truly, if not as fully, as the
Hindu Of the same or the Jew Of DIFF
ferent stock
The American Revolution was a union
of foreigners, The American Constitu-
ton was a law Of a state organized for
the common protection Of foreigners.
Its vitality lay in its political recogni-
tion Of the dissenter, or rather in its
non-recognition Of any dissent. Its citi-
zen was the man, not the sectarian.
Whether brought about by the course of
progress, or by the exigency of the
times, the American Constitution was
the only resource of a nation of foreign
From the "North American Review"