The Jewish advance. (Chicago, Ill.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-15

mony to which they submitted in the
church. One Of them, in spite of his
unstable disposition, adhered in his
heart more sincerely to Judaism than
the Friedlanders, who acted as though
they. were it's representatives. These
two highly gifted personages, who, not
withstanding their inner differences, are
looked upon as pair of twins, Of whom
Germany is now as proud as of the twins
Schiller and Goethe, are the more orna-
ments of Judaism. The Germans have
to a great extent to thank these two
Jews, whom they prosecuted in their
lifetime with their disgusting hep hep
cry for the refined taste, the lively, in
dependent feeling of truth and impulse
of freedom. Borne and Heine have
rent with their lightning spirit the
medieval mists, which the Germans
artifcially gathered around themselves
and again furnished access to pure light
Wit and esprit for which, up to that
time, but few besides Lessing had the
right understanding, domesticated them
selves in the German literature and ban
ished the German stiffness and helpless
ness which the neighboring nations used
to ridicule
In their childish snappishness against
the Jews, the Teuto- maniacs, the Ruehs
and the Hundt- Radowskys, asserted that
Judaism can give birth to no man of
character, to no soul with free love of
the fine arts; here history at once gave
them the lie and made them blush.
Judaism endowed an apostle of liberty
and strong character with language
that reminds one of the prophets and
the Roman Catos and that man made a
mess Of all the political ideas of the
Germans; it also exhibited an ideal poet
in whom fervent poeSy and scourging
irony were blended and he bore down all
their rules of art. 1t is indeed no ex-
Iteration to assert that no nation on
earth IN the abundance of the forms of
/ history. reduced, simultaneously, two
peculiar characters to be compared with
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@hose satire ridiculed themselves, who
also laughed aloud outwardly, hiding a
deep sorrow in their heart. The mani
fold blooming beauties of the minds of
Borne and Heine had sprouted forth
from Jewish soil and were only moist
ened by European culture. This is
proven by their close relation to each
other in spite Of their differences and
their mutual antipathy. Not only was
their wit Jewish, but also their strong
impulse of truth, their aversion to dis
play their battered of palliaton and dis
guise, their despise of all official page
antry, of darkening clouds of incense, Of
the deafening bell-tolling for nothing at
all, of the sweet sounds Of the organ in
honor of falshood, slavery of man. dis
tortion of justice, and slaughter
The democractic and intense liberal
sentiment. in which Borne excelled
Heine, the sharp Spinozistic analysis,
which manifested itself more in Heine
than in Borne, all this was of genuine
Jewish origin. If they were born in
Christianity and raised in it's official
spirit, both would not have become that
what they were: redeeming powers as
sisting with smiling countenances to
Danish deeply rooted perversions and
silly follles. They, the ensaved, became
the liberators and delivered their
enemies from the double yoke Of polite
al and social pupilage,
The Teuto-maniacs had almost de-
served thanks for their tormenting the
Jews so irritatingly with their relapse
into barbarity. They have reused through
that, if not Heine, positively Beme,
who was inclined towards indolent
quietude and they pressed the arrow
into his hand with which he pierced
their hearts.
(To be CoatinuedJ