traditions of their race. The main reason for the indestructibility of
the Jews is that they early embraced certain invaluable ideals, and
have struggled towards them indomitably for thousands of years.

_Races and Ideals_

The principal difference between races is difference of ideals.
Whenever several distinct races come to live side by side on the same
territory in the bonds of a peaceful and cooeperative fellowship for
all common public purposes, it will be found that they have all
reached common political and social ideals, although in regard to many
racial attributes and even in regard to religious beliefs they remain
distinct.

The assimilation of different races can be brought about only by a
gradual acceptance of the same ideals and aspirations. For several
centuries this process of assimilation has been going on in many
parts of the earth, and is now going on at an accelerated pace,
resulting in larger conceptions of nationality and larger political or
governmental units.

_The Influence of Lofty Ideals on the Jewish Race_

The Jewish race affords the strongest instance of the influence on a
human stock of lofty ideals, persistently held wherever on the face of
the earth a fragment of the race has planted itself. In all
generations and in all environments the Jews have succeeded in
competition with other races to a remarkable degree. Among a poor
population they are less poor than their neighbors; among a free and
prosperous population the Jews become richer and more prosperous than
the average. Confined in unwholesome Ghettos, they retain to an
astonishing degree their health and vitality, helped doubtless by the
dietary and sanitary directions given in their ancient Scriptures.
Deprived of the right to bear arms in many countries, and, therefore,
unable to resist savage attack, they remain inextinguishable. Wherever
they become prosperous they develop an extraordinary community
feeling, and take care of their own poor or unfortunate. In short, in
all generations and in all their various environments they have
exhibited, and still exhibit, a remarkable racial tenacity and vigor.
It is manifest that this normal success of the race is not due to any
especially favorable material conditions, but to the rare strength and
significance of its ideals.

_"The Noblest of Human Ideals": Jewish Monotheism_

What are these ideals? What have they been for thousands of years? The
first of the Jewish ideals