The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-11-18
JEWS Do NOT FORM
A SEPARATE RACE
Rabbi Sale Discusses interestingly
ia" Subject of Race
Prejudice.

NJ Temple Share E.nath yesterday morn
| 'fg the pastor. Doctor :. sale. preached up
an the subject. Race Prejudice" Doctor
sale said. in part.
Class prejudices. whether inherited or
not. are tie offspring of ignorance and self
iShIt"sS. They are rooted in feelings. hut
not in reason. and as they aye planted In
tie, At the time Of life when our JiscUrSivc
faculties are inactive. they cling 10 us with
. tenacity that marks all our earliest i'm
| IressiOnS. For Tie most part men are
p'' JUDGED against things and persons with
{ whom they ar" not acquainted. Thus for
I Tie ducie-t and uncuiUvated nations. every
stranger was an enemy. But this tendency
Was not peculiar To the anCientS and to-
day yet. despite or higher culture and
I civilization, w find il "a hard matter to lay
aside our adverse progression. and enter
with sympathy aHG kindness into the
7 thoughts and feelings OF cur fellow-mSn.
W have not vet learned 10 regard our fell
/ low-n9u as . separate and distinct person
ATTY, aS an Individual Who should he Judged
! ~ mis- conduct and character. by his actual
! merits and dcnisritS. but We take him L.
he q representative uf a class or group IN
! all thiuss. ana then We proceed 10 Judge.
generally, To cOrfcmu him. by the class TO
! which BE belongs. or We judge and con
denim the class by him. No one is moro IA
miliar with this perempiory mode Of dis
posing Of the reputation of a class OF peD-
/ pie tnan the Jews and no one has suffered
/ from it a. they have. Even TODAY the
'''' 'N. 'N'N F-A' - ''A' ''r
/ good ana worthy Of our people are the rX-
| ."pJiGnS. while The vast majority CORE
! sUoEd 10 q low aud degraded type such as
the vulgar prejudices ut the ages have
/ pictured.
Blu the fact that This is So shows plain
~ that the poiS "a Of prejudice against Us
! still turks in The popular mind. The fair
/ minded. the enlightened. tht humane among
men are all agreed that prejudiceS Of ev'ry
description. which involve . large body Of
cur fellow beings. are as dangerous in prac-
! tice as they are false and vicious in theory.
Most of MS. even the educated. entertain
the most irrational and unwsrranted no
! tiCns concerning the race question. Proper
Is speaking. there il no such thing as "A
separst t. and distinct race Of men. This is
the deliberate judgment of the most em-
!nent scientists. such a. Darwin, Lubbock
and Tylur. and. a. we may well believe. it
Is based upon minute and exact researches
in the fields Of sthnology and anthropology.
! shall not undertake To put befor" you any
of the data by which this ypiniCn il sus-
tanned. but ! shall only quote the words OF
Charles Darwin. In which he gives utter
anCe to II. Those ndtUraliSts who admit
the principle Of evolution. and this j. now
admitted by the majority Of rising men, will
feel no doubt that all the races of men are
descended from a single primitive stock. As
II is improbable that the numerous and UNI
important points OF resemblance between
the several races of man in bodily structure
and mental faculties should all have bfen
Independently acquired. they must have
been inherited from proSenitOrs who had
the same characters. Darwin was 50 fply
! convinced th3i all the branches OF tnP nu-
man family were derived from one common
ancestry that he proposed T. substitute the
more exact scientific term Of subspecies for
that Of races on account of the false notions
that attached to the latter.
History bears out the verdict OF the exact
sciences. IL Is Il fact that none should be
ignorant or. that there is no people OF cul-
turc and civilization which was not formed
by the iuterminglins of various so-calleo
races. Indeed. IL is the opinion Of Scholdrh
that the ascent of the human family wa
conditioned upon the blending of its di-.
veigcnt elements. The more highly civilized
people. the greater is the variety Of it,
physiological types and characters. while
the more primitive and uncultured tribes
present a greater uniformity OF external
features. The nearer We approach to purity
nf blood. the nearer We come to Il state ol
savagery. In fact. science has played havoc
with our cherished notions and prejudices
on this head. IL has shown that in the be
ginning there could have been no separat,
and distinct races. but all men are descend
81 from on, aboriginal stock. and that in
the upward movement Of human society the
races of man gradually Joined and blended,
rs Il was most natural that the children OF
a common tarentaRe should do. II IL very
strange chat men should cling to their pref
udictS Of racp-prlde and race purity. not
only against the teachings of science. hut
also against the word OF the Bible. If any
where the doctrine Of the absolute unity Of
the human race * certainly taught there.
Upon the very first page OF sacred iiteraturr
We are told that God made man. and. by
way OF bearing out this belief. the author Of
the eleventh chapter Of Genesis. the famouS
catalogue Of nations, undertakes 10 trace
the kinship OF all the sons of Adam. back
To one aboriginal ancestor. Perhaps IL IL
had not BATTERED our vanity To hold fast
by this prejudice OF our descent from an
originally superior ancestry. We would long
ago have seized upon this agreement he
tween the Bible and science. and would
have h-ralded Il to the world. just a. We
have done IN many other instances. where
there was no warrant for il. hut where our
foolish pride WIS not involved. The con-
sansuinity OF the human race. in the last
remove IL therefore & Doctrine. which has
TIN authority OF the Two highest sources.
But the Bible teaches not only the racial
affinity. but what is more important by
far-thr spiritual unity OF the human FAM
lily: for W are told that God made man Ia
his image. and after his own likeness, The
same divine spirit was breathed into all. and
the same divine image was stamped upoh
every mhnd and soul. Here there j. no ref
erence to race, color. creed or condition
How little and ontemptihle are all The arti-
fetal cUuvcutiOnalities by which We shat
ourselves from each Other. all the vain i'm
agiHings Of superiority by which We pre-
sumo to lord II over one another. how little
and contemplate. when viewed in the ii.nI
uf the sublime truth nf our Bible that GOd
made man in his image.
Most foolish and pe:uiciOus. however. II
all Erejudic-> * the one that the Jews SIM
constitute Il race. On the contrary. they
are more blend-! than any other known
body OF men. II has been proved by actual
scientinc research that there i less peImB-
nenCy and uniformity Of ply steal character
iStlc- among them ttan III the other so
called faces. II their boasted mental ana
moral superiority needed an explanation.
this fact would afford it in the most ap-
proved scientific form. The history of the
Jews. properly understood. will bear out
he results % authropoloEy. What now be
comes Of the prejudice that We are still a
race We can no longer point to the great
men in whom cuursed the blood Of our prim-
'tiye ancestors: We can no longer lay such
undue stress upon our race purity. upon our
pure blue blood. which j. f0olishly supposed
L. flo" back 10 father Abraham. perhaps 90
Adam. The purest blood known is that ~
the savage. Perhaps We shall not take Ii
i'm such good part hereafter when some pat
runizing defender Of our people pats NJ on
the shoulder and tells the list ming AID
wondering multitude that We are the Oldest
known and the purest race on Earth. When
unc, we nave ceased TO pirate by our racial
Characteristics. which science has declared
a myth and - fiction: when once We hJv.
begun 10 understand that a race Jew H. AN
unknown quantity. a mere nothing. ant
should net be- recognized. then We snail
perhaps begin 10 put q proper value upon
those treasures of the mimi and soul. the
spiritual inheritHnces which should cOasti-
tute the only bond of union and fellowship
among Us. As our adherence 10 these acne
has sustained uS in the past. thus We ,n-
tertain the hope that they shall some daN.
in the providence OF God. unite US more
closely with the rest OF our fellow-men."