kind into workmen. They are good,
misunderstood people, who now suffer perhaps more severely than any
others. The Society of Jews will, moreover, busy itself from the
outset with their training as artisans. Their love of gain will be
encouraged in a healthy manner. Jews are of a thrifty and adaptable
disposition, and are qualified for any means of earning a living, and
it will therefore suffice to make small trading unremunerative, to
cause even present peddlers to give it up altogether. This could be
brought about, for example, by encouraging large department stores
which provide all necessaries of life. These general stores are
already crushing small trading in large cities. In a land of new
civilization they will absolutely prevent its existence. The
establishment of these stores is further advantageous, because it
makes the country immediately habitable for people who require more
refined necessaries of life.

HABITS

Is a reference to the little habits and comforts of the ordinary man
in keeping with the serious nature of this pamphlet?

I think it is in keeping, and, moreover, very important. For these
little habits are the thousand and one fine delicate threads which
together go to make up an unbreakable rope.

Here certain limited notions must be set aside. Whoever has seen
anything of the world knows that just these little daily customs can
easily be transplanted everywhere. The technical contrivances of our
day, which this scheme intends to employ in the service of humanity,
have heretofore been principally used for our little habits. There are
English hotels in Egypt and on the mountain-crest in Switzerland,
Vienna cafes in South Africa, French theatres in Russia, German operas
in America, and best Bavarian beer in Paris.

When we journey out of Egypt again we shall not leave the fleshpots
behind.

Every man will find his customs again in the local groups, but they
will be better, more beautiful, and more agreeable than before.

_V. Society of Jews and Jewish State_

NEGOTIORUM GESTIO

This pamphlet is not intended for lawyers. I can therefore touch only
cursorily, as on so many other things, upon my theory of the legal
basis of a State.

I must, nevertheless, lay some stress on my new theory, which could be
maintained, I believe, even in discussion with men well versed in
jurisprudence.

According to Rousseau's now antiquated view, a State is formed by a
social contract. Rousseau he