CHAPTER XIV

VARIOUS THEORIES 277

This chapter is a digression on the various theories on the Jewish race and its fortunes which have arisen in history and some of which are still present.

The theory that reconciliation is impossible--its attachment to the idea of a special curse or blessing.

The theory of a mysterious necessary alliance between Israel and Britain--its most extravagant forms.

The theory that the Jews are the necessary _flux_ of Europe, without which our energies would decline--note on the intellectual independence of the Jew and on his original effect on our thought--demand for a Jewish history of Europe and Islam combined.

The theory that the Jewish problem is domestic only and no concern of ours--its error, since the relations are mutual.

The two theories of the Jew as a malignant enemy of our innocent selves, and of our malignant enmity against the innocent and martyred Jew--both erroneous.

The theory that the Jewish problem is _now_ solving itself by absorption--this theory false and due to a misunderstanding of history and a neglect of acute modern and recent differentiation--Mr. Ford's epigram on "the melting-pot."

Fantastic theory that no Jewish national type exists!