The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-24
,ifcant extracts from his paper demon

StTaCe.
eli zlonism be a peril. so is the absence Of Zion
ism, so Is Judaism Itself. Zlonism has upftcd the
position OF the Jews. II has already depressed the
medieval tradition Of money, lending and Jewing''
and the successful establ shnlent OF Jewish State
would make the same change In public opinion as
has taken place toward the Japancse. The
fatal WEAKNESS OF all Jewish religious reform lies
In the attempt TO maintain national Church on q
religion which has been carefully denationalized.
Judaism Is, indeed decaying. and jewish
emancipation Is. II not fraud, not wholly genuine;
but Oh the other hand the fatal facility Of hssimia-
tion, far from being clinical impossblity Is
precisely ono OF the greatest arguments for
Zionsn."
whether this Jewish race has arisen by pre-
historic causes or by causes within our ken, how
does this Affect It's present differentiation Tho
Americans are not pcople-they have merely
been formed into one. Britain Is not an lsland-it
was merely broken OF from France By the sea-
Israel Is not merely a religious community OF
great antiquity, It Is the broken and scattered re-
mains of a people with soil, and wars, and dynas-
ties, and a magnificent epical literature that has
nodded the thought and the art OF half OF the
world Christianity began with dcnat ionalizat ton,
Judaism has never shaken nationalism OF. In
Judaism the two threads-territoral and religious
have lain entangc In that confusion which is tho
unavoidable legacy OF the period when the two
were one. To cut away the territorial thread and
to dsentangle tho religious. would now be per
fec,y legitimate. We arc tho heirs Of the past. not
It's slaves"
Assimilation Is evaporation. The transition
from assimilation to fusion is merely question OF
,,rtIt al
with the non Jewish. But gradually the stronger
stream will absorb the weaker. When the jewish
code clashes with the Christian 1t is not the Jewish
code that will survive"
-The United States are the mills of GOD grind
ing tho motley races into new pattern. Assimila-
ton without fusion is possible to races with terri
torlal or color boundaries. But races adventurlng
among other races OF the same color must either
fuse or absorb, eat or BIO eaten"
only two homeless races In history have at
tempted to stand outside fusion. One Is the Jew
ish race. the other Is tho gpsy race But the Clip
sizes have pitched their tents outside civilization:
they have never attempted to become householder
or city fathers They have never sung tho patn
otto songs OF local chauvnlsm They have never
yearned for assimilation Hence. they may truly
DO an eternal people. Tho Jews however. are
merely an evaporanng people. How else should
one of the most prolific peoples In history number
only twelve millions after ali these centuries OF ex-
s.ence, The Jewish people has been preserved
from age to age by mere remnant. but It's survival
thus far Is no proof OF It's continuance under the
GROWING attack OF assimilation. The Campanie
of Venice fell at last"
THE proper answer to Zionism consists. not In
cries OF peril but In one OF two opposition policies
either religious recons, ructlon with the conversion
OF Judaism into a missionary religion, total
fusion with the higher races and civilization whom
we have already Hcbralzed.-
Is not this cry Of alarm induced by
Mr.. ZANGw1LL's recognition Of the fact
that the Jews cannot be kept apart from
the assimilation OF races which is now
proceeding, and in this country most
significantly? Does it not suggest that
he foresees the consequences of lessened
and lessening regard for their religious
traditions by the Jewish people?