Balder Ex-Libris

Author : De Ghequier Antoine
Title : The anti-semitic movement in Europe
Year : 1889

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The Hebrews, the chosen people of old, possessed even in pre-Christian times an ineradicable propensity to worship Mammon. The selling of the birthright was a bargain, and they have bargained ever since. The anti-Semitic movement, though hardly ten years old under that name, has thrown a mass of publications on the market among the authors of which we encounter the learned Catholic priest, the professor of theology, the lawyer, the atheist, men of all creeds and of no creeds, and hence also a correspondingly great disparity of opinions as to the intrinsic merits of the whole question. Mr. August Trefort, the late Minister of Education in Hungary, condemns, for instance, the movement not merely as unchristian and uncatholic, but as anti-social and communistic. He says, with a great deal of force, "An appetite after Jewish property will necessarily be followed by an appetite after the property of the Catholic bishop and the Catholic count.” ...