The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13
EVIL OF ANTI SEN ITISM.
RELIx ADLER SAYS RACE PRFJU-
DICE is UNCHRISTTAN.

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1ns BIost Offensive Manifestation In This Conn
try ura Taken. TIN Form. He Says. OF
sscini northumberland Address Ierter.
DAY Errorc the society ror Ethical Culture.
In an address delivered before tho Society
for Ethical Culture at Carnegie Hall yesterday
Prof. Felix Adler argued tho evil of anti.Sc.
mitic prcjudiceai In general, parucularizing the
social discrimination against Jews in tho Unit.
Cd States. He characterized this prejudice OF
Gentilcs as evidence that the primary mission
Of Christ's teachings had not boon recognized
by Christians who ignore individuality in tho
inflammation Of race or class. In part Prof.
Adler said:
"Aftor centuries OF persecution the prescr.
walton OF tho Jews has been described as q mir
aclo in history. 1t Is a miracle only in the or.
binary sense that 1t has the element OF the in
credible and Is duo 10 inherent, inalienablo
traits OF Jewish character-traits OF will, traits
of hcart, and traits OF mind. Perhaps we can
safely attribute tho survival OF the Jews TO
that element OF the will which has given
them the invinciblo power Of sustaining an at
titude of non.resistance Indeed, there Is no
Raoe or class Of tho human family which has so
consistently and patiently suffered persecu.
ton, and having been smiJten upon the one
check has presented the other to tho persecu-
tors. We have found deeply centred In the
hGuEb u hOiiVctiS 'oe'h'y " 'oNo vi auh
aly, which has instilled and fortified the virtue
Of oompassionateness TO fellow men, and which
after tho fostering Of II for centuries has made
the jews n temperate people. 1t is true that
they are not free from vice, but the vices com.
mon with the race are not those which make
women and children suffer most.
"In quality Of mind the Jewish race has en-
foyed the benefits of twenty five centuries of
intellectual culture. There has ever existed an
fAAN,ttaI1a determination IN maintain ~ln,o-
taon and intellectual advancement, and during
the brief respites from persecution accorded the
JewB schools. colleges, and various educa-
tional institutions appeared, where logic,
fprtsprudence, mathemstics, philosophy. and
In organized efforts to exterininate the Jewish
people, when in the fourteenth century 1oO,O 600
century, 2b0, 900 met u like fate, the passive
fesiRnation. the failure to resist, triumphed.
S DSns,nne%s mad Sadd' WitG fanatic S%s iSf hatred Is even 'n'
Il recall these "reminiscences OF Jewish his
tcrZ; as t6.asy are PERTINENT to s 4 CONDITION fho a1 sH:
This ghost OF the middle ages has presented it:
IN 1897 the spirit of 1889 has been revived in
that city; that anti Semitic prejudice has
can recall the recent persecution of Jews in
Russia, but, discouraging as 1t may appear. we
point Soia moi In r ssS form RI TON Il may a t take the sn tlsS.
mitio movement is irrational and cannot en-.
dpre. 1t has no object and its most violent
advocates can give us no idea of the end they
wish. to. attain. II modern an~ti-Semiticism
has In view the annihilation Of the Jews, tho
and failed. II 1t has In view the subjugation
Of Jows b., legislative Discrimination It will
they contemplate humiliation, they. can only
guooeed ae long as the causes appeal to preju.
which can be classified as religious, national.
kStio. economic, and social, none can be deemed
nd ssoo os ' Sss Of n b the lint limited im s5atss the first 1n
Germany. however. the nationalistic objection
% the Jew is potent. Germany for Germans
ne common cry OF the masses, has surely in
"In the United States. however. the Anglo.
Gaxop race is SO confident of its supremacy that
the jews are not disseminated against on the
Round that they are foreign intruders. Nei.
somio reasons. 8 the 5000 miiiionai res said said
hem Is nsisnihsantly small; Therefore 10
There remains then tho social disorim,na-
and property are secure, that he has bis SUI.
iraxs that he is eligible to office, and no j.
DISCRIMINATION against You and your racer
.social esteem Is undoubtedly one Of the
Q socially inferiorI. That there is a seamy side
70 the Jewish character cannot be denied, but
eurely there Is also q seamy side to the
English and American character. In Ger
many the nasty word of Americanism has been
Americans have, gained. for the nation this
az only side to American character, Il
49,. ~ nat T. would yoM say of the saneness and
Americans forms his opinion Of American
fSSharaete ter 1 and cannot the same be said Of
that a race which has preserved such vitaiity'
which has produced men Of eminence in every
Walk or life Ia socially AauralaI7 To fln
Iaoe, which gave 10, the world such men as
RgbipStein, Mendelssohn: and statesmen,
With other races and peoplei Do these anti
gepitics presume that these men Of inteliec-
81 accident efdHsI" or viii hna they pS" sdm Ts' that afT thoy merely are =
drawing from that wonderful fund OF intel.
tsfsa5nSl culture tSr which for twenty centuries has
sSssI sa,, f. his mrs character; The desperation TO
Ssggsreted form they have sometimes taken Is
the Fesplt Of peEseoHtion. The question Of
Tho noarishing of an antipathy to fellow men,
f aasR% rs5s ad fhs t.S Of all people as 2 class. the
tndiyidual character, in fact tho prejudice Of
Gentle against Jews Is demoralizing in its ef:
bis fellow man. | can conceive a%nti.semiticismm
S S%SsE{ inc such hoS ae st or }Raganst bI; cannot
smons Christians. The Tissfj primary n%ryr aim of jesus
sSS;Psst for indiyid,%aiityi to inspire a desire to
chat every man should be Judged on his own
What If Jesus should return to this world,
You'd it rot be probable that He would come as
Re did before as a Jew. Presume that He
insult, would meet tho Most Worshipped and
mo Most Beloved of those who ardently pro.
clude If not that the primary lesson which
I ths nsof sams to fo,I teach has "a; H RGt been learned by
n NIT " IN TH NJ