The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-02
INFLUENCE OF The HEBREWS
SsIVlCe Of The S,milic Family 70 The
World.

OF Odious Prosecutions.
/ II is the fashion nowadays ar,oDg g..
historic order OF savants to depIore The
influence exercised by the Semitic fannie
/ upon The western world. They think
mat the Aryan race could and should be
selI-suficient. that Greek literature and
/ art supplied models Of uncomfortable p.--
/ lection. and that Roman genius dictated
/ laws capable of conducting civilization IN
the road Of limitless progress. Accordine
10 them, everything which has sprung
+ from an origin foreign TO these two sources
mas only been cause Of disorder and has
only turned the European nations away
4 from their normal destiny. Without nm
derest!mating all that the human specifs
owes to Greece and Rome. it seems to
Us that the sweeping condemnation passed
upon every other influence and power
( Is sovereignty unjust. and especially that
/ the retrospective ostracism with which i,
Is sought to strike the Judaic element is
contrary to the healthy philosophy of his
tory. 1t is maintained that the Greco-Ro-
man civilization possessed in itself everv-
thing necessary for its indefinite develop
ment How do they explain. then the
symptoms Of prostraton which manifest
ed themselves on all hands after the fan
OF the republican government? Why did
Greece. who had so heroically sustained
the shock Of the Persian power, submit
herself so cowardly to Alexander and his
successors? Why did Rome, who by the
practice of civic virtues and a clever policy.
had rendered herself worthy OF governing
other peoples, afterwards esteem herself
sufficiently happy when wallowing ia the
mire OF imperial servitude? 1t is self-evi-
dent that the two sources of civilization
were exhausted or at least that they had
bestowed all they We're able to produce of
themselves, and by reason of their init
mate rapproachment without the aid of
any foreign element. VIII il be said that
they could be terminated or formulated
by the barbarian invasion that they we've
really so in part, and that they would have
oeen IN a more complete and rational
manner without the intervention Of chat
grand Semitic doctrine known BY the name
OF Christianity? There is a thesis which
can be sustained by more or less specious
arguments, but in which there will ALWAYS
enter great deal of imagination ana ar
bitrariness, because they cannot be found
ed upon experience.
To this, however. a grave if not
decisive objection may be opposed If the
l Semitic intervention was contrary to The,
genius of our race, if it was to be fatal TO
1t, why was it not repulsed by her? This
Intervention was not exercised bv oDen
I force, as was the case afterward when
an effort was made to spread abroad Ma
hometanism, but which, nevertheless. was
compelled TO give way before European
energy The doctrine of the Nazarenc was
presented under the most modest appear
ance and appealed simply to the intelli-
gence and the feelings. If it was at first
received and since has become universally
accepted, in spite of it's gloominess ana
what was repulsive to human pride, must
We not conclude that It was found salts
flying to the Greco-Roman spirit instead Of
being antipathetic to it, as Renan and
other adversaries or Semitism pretend?
There is simple and natural way of ex-
planning this great historical phenomena,
without having recourse to a hypothesis
which implies a discordant contradiction.
We cannot any more understand col
lective humanity than individual human
ity without the opposition and the al
lance Of the sexes, without
a male principle or a female prin-
ciple, which avoid and repe each other
u-l- l44S d Gel tam ptltDlls lltu dl d given
moment recognize each other seek one
another, are drawn and united TO each
other with an irresistible force. Gay
polytheism and the worship of the beam
tiful which distinguished the Greeks from
all others, testified in them to the pre-
dominance of the sensitive or feminine
element. But this people was the most
advanced and the most perfect repre-
sentative of the Aryan race, and we
must consequently see in It's faculties
and special tendencies those of the whole
race. 1t may have been thought at first
sight that the Romans genius, graVer
and more severe, indicated the mascu-
line element, destined 10 fecund amorous
and sensual Greece. This is an illusion
which the slightest examination sutfices
to dissipate. Rome has but been sub
servient to Greece; she has not caused
her to produce anything; she has not fe-
cunded her in any manner. 1t is in re-
/ atty Greece which has contributed to
the intellectual perfecting of Rome, and
who by her artistic and literary influence
determined the bursting forth of semi
barbarous Italy. But in all that there was
no true formulation; no creative or reno
waiting principle interviewed, and it is poly
theism, the dogma of divine plurality,
which has remained the characteristic
trait of the Greco-Roman group.
We must conclude that this group is
essentially feminine, because poIythelSm5
to which in antiquity it adhered, is
1 religion in which sentiment plays much
greater role than intelligence. When it
attains its complete development it mani
tests an uneasiness, a WEAKNESS, which
proves that it is not self-sutiicient, and
that it is looking for some external in
huence, revelation or light hitherto un-
known. Under these circumstances Jewish
monotheism presented itself, not with the
cold and inhexible rigor Of the Mosaic
law. but with the ardor of propagandism
which characterizes a revolutionary doc
trine. Rome was accustomed from habit
and policy to absorb all dogmas and TO
transform them into her own religion;
but when she sought to absorb the Ju-
daisn of St Paul. she found superior
! force which penetrated her with new life,
and metamorphosed her instead OF being
| transformed by her. This was the male
religion Of the world, which, after having
grown I'D by itself in an obscure district
/ of the east. attained TO manhood ana
came forth proclaiming its rights TO west
! ern humanity, adorned with all the at
/ fractions of civilization. When ne lett
/ Jerusalem Paul was still a Jew. In max