The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-15
vitality Of the Jewish Race.

The members OF the Jewish race haVe'
up to the present period of history, pre-
.3nted the most remarkable OF al thc
vitai les, and those OF them VINO are
united to the other races ny tlcS Oh
blood, though not by any profession or
religious indication, are hardly less
privileged. In England and Wales we
compute the number Of protested Jews
does not exceed $4,000, some say not
over 10000; but in addition to these, II
physiological readings be true, ana
feel sure they are, there is an enormous
Chri-tanized Jewish population which,
under exceedingly broad aud Protestant
PRINCIPLES. accept the Christian faith
with a tendency 10 Purianic simplicity,
and all but Juiaic method, and in which
the names, the beliefs, the traditions OF
Inc Jewish people, as rendered in their
,acred writings, find their repelilions.
But notice now, in regard to Vitality,
The most truly typical of the Semitic;
type-ihosc, namely, wEo profess ana
al Themselves JGw5-and 1t Is they, |
snccialIy repeat, who show an eNcep-
r;onal tcnacity TO life, under circ'im'
.,auccs which at first sight would seem
., cause the utmost resistance to ne. j
haze investigated this matter with the
...ales care, and, not to trouble you
| lv rn,rltipo in detail wh0L | have
| ,irr,d,y pub'ishcl. | may state in brici
TORN, that during n. ayc, OF life, under
m conditions Of IL. o. which it has been
ubicr'ed, under prosecutions lhc most
Dalnu under suppress ion Of Ilhe'ts the
most dctcrminale, under residences III
confined quarters Of towns thar were
practically prisons, under isolation the
most piif.h, under cOntampt' the most
cruel, The Jewish family has maintained
, vitality and health which is ut once a
| IN del IL the other families Of men
among which it has been destined. or
.hould rather have said permitted, ia
exist. The Jews are not free from pro
cliyitics to iii .ca.e Of 4 serious constliu'
,ional kind. They are comparatlycil
free from consumption; they are very
free from these zymotic diseases or pes
tlenccs, smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever. and such like, which carry Oh 81
LARGELY the children Of other races they
arc very free, that is TO say, they have
been very free, from the diseases wiicI
spring from poverty; and they are vcr'
free from the diseases which spring iron
illcnoss. ostentation, and luxury. IN,
particular hereditary disease from whlcI
they suffer is cancer. According to m
experience they ere more dispose
to that malady than either Saxon o
Celt, but it is not sufficiently widespread
to effect the general results Of the tena
cious life pertaining to them. For tn
benefits they have received in the wa
of life and health the Jewish family la
been indebted to wise sanitary laws an
regulations bequeathed to them from
old, to thrift and provision for the MOI
row, to peacclulnoss Of heart, to dome:
! tic virtue, and most of all TO sobrlell
. II is hard to tell whether, when set fro
from every political and religious ol
preston, left to make their own cur,
| in open competition with other people
+ receiving from their fathers the wealI
, of their past, wealth of wisdom, veal
/ of simple LONELINESS, wealth Of richie
\ wealth of vitality, they will retain an
bank the same treasures or take out IN
sauander all. At the present time 1t
: as il the finger of prophecy was p9in
. me to the last.namcd fate.-DT. Rlc
i ards9n, IN Ea?er'S NaQa:iae.