CHAPTER I

THE THESIS OF THIS BOOK 3

The Jews are an alien body within the society they inhabit--hence irritation and friction--a problem is presented by the strains thus set up--the solution of that problem is urgently necessary.

An alien body in any organism is disposed of in one of two ways: elimination and segregation.

Elimination may be by destruction, by excretion or by absorption--in the case of the Jews the first is abominable and, further, has failed--the second means exile: it has also failed--the third, absorption, the most probable and most moral, has failed throughout the past, though having everything in its favour.

There remains segregation, which may be of two forms: hostile to, or careless of, the alien body, or friendly to it and careful of its good--in this latter form it may best be called _Recognition_. The first kind of segregation has often been attempted in history--it has been partially successful over long periods--but has always left behind it a sense of injustice and has not really solved the problem--also it has always failed in the end.

The true solution is in the second kind of segregation, that is, recognition on both sides of a separate Jewish nationality.