[Podosinovik]

I am very fond of Mark Twain, and have been reading an endless fountain of awesome quotes, where I ran into this essay. I find it interesting on a number of levels, particularly his allusion at the end of the essay to the Jews propensity toward preternatural immortality.

Twain has held a large influence on American culture for well over a 100 years. Typically, the reader needs to read Twain tongue in cheek, or at least not quite literally.

What do you think?

Concerning The Jews - Essay by Mark Twain


CONCERNING THE JEWS ...

The Essay

"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"

Mark Twain Twain also wrote this in regard to Zionism shortly after hearing Theodor Herzl in Austria.

I want to finish with a question arising from this excerpt, with Twain commenting on Theodore Herzl’s Zionism and offering advice to American Jews

• You seem to think that the Jews take no hand in politics here, that they are “absolutely non-participants.” I am assured by men competent to speak that this is a very large error, that the Jews are exceedingly active in politics all over the empire, but that they scatter their work and their votes among the numerous parties, and thus lose the advantages to be had by concentration. I think that in America they scatter too, but you know more about that than I do. Speaking of concentration, Dr. Herzl has a clear insight into the value of that. Have you heard of his plan? He wishes to gather the Jews of the world together in Palestine, with a government of their own – under the suzerainty of the Sultan, I suppose. At the Convention of Berne, last year, there were delegates from everywhere, and the proposal was received with decided favor. I am not the Sultan, and I am not objecting; but if that concentration of the cunningest brains in the world were going to be made in a free country (bar Scotland), I think it would be politic to stop it. It will not be well to let the race find out its strength. If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride any more.
  

[Peapeuddedbaw]

To me the secret to their "immortality", and survival, is that they stick together......like shit.....with the weak ones doing what the strong ones tells them to do and by planning ahead of time what they will do.

First post of the day...........good morning to one and all.

[derinasderun]

The jews have done a great job at looking out for their interests while destroying the interests of their host nation. The kikes are nation wreckers, both in their self interest and in their desire to destroy everything in their path.

[Podosinovik]

Twainisms...

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

[Gilowero]

I am very fond of Mark Twain, and have been reading an endless fountain of awesome quotes, where I ran into this essay. I find it interesting on a number of levels, particularly his allusion at the end of the essay to the Jews propensity toward preternatural immortality.

Twain has held a large influence on American culture for well over a 100 years. Typically, the reader needs to read Twain tongue in cheek, or at least not quite literally.

What do you think?

Twain also wrote this in regard to Zionism shortly after hearing Theodor Herzl in Austria.

Is that the full essay?

[Podosinovik]

Is that the full essay?

Yeah, as far as I've seen, though I only checked two sources. Apparently even back in the late 1800's writers were getting the race card pulled on them. He was lambasted over that piece for insinuating that Jews weren't typically as patriotic as others.
And to think it was 50 years before the creation of the state of Misrael.