...r doctrinal religions. The Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of mor... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...he same line of argument applies to all the compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , w... ...ge- ment of a learned prince, Ptolemy Philadelphus, by an asso- ciation of Jewish emigrants in Alexandria. It was, as the event has shown in very many... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p...

...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...anity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Fort... ...ee from earth to heaven, and see there standing, still a fixture, that old Jewish scheme! What right have you to hold up this obstacle to my understan... ...ty which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the police... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that...

...ove him inconsistent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind ha... ...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ...hose beautiful religious doctrines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of J... ...he Minister of justice. Again oblivion, and another scene. The family of a Jewish watchmaker is evicted for being too poor. The children are crying, a...

...d saves us the trouble of flattering the Queen. What does she care for old politicians and campfed bears like us? No: Apollodorus is good company, Ruf... ...his Caesar! Will he come soon, think you? APOLLODORUS. He was settling the Jewish question when I left. A flourish of trumpets from the north, and com... ...all. One more illustration. Is the Englishman prepared to ad- mit that the American is his superior as a human being? I ask this question because the ... ...ds appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an advantage over the Englishman of exactly the same nature th...

...u man beings. The Stoics were, I believe, the first (except so far as the Jewish law constitutes an exception) who taught as a part of morality that ... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t...

... as that of Christ, ought to abstain to the utmost of their power from the Jewish ceremonies.” “O unaccountable!” say I: “what! baptism a Jewish cerem... ...I: “what! baptism a Jewish ceremony?” “Yes, my friend,” says he, “so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look ... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...ual is hardly found in a thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians and conquerors (and all ages produce some) were generally so ma...