ive expression of political Zionism--namely, "The
Jewish State," published by Herzl in 1896.

_The Vision of a Jewish State_

Basing its structure on the formulas of the prophets,[1] who
proclaimed that polity was indispensable for effecting the true
mission of Israel--for the realization of the religious, social, or
ethical ideal; conceiving Israel, as did Reform Judaism, to be its own
Messiah, not fated, however, to remain a minutely scattered leaven
among nations who condemned or destroyed it, but destined according to
the prophetic promise to re-establish itself upon Zion;[2] convinced
that a true assimilating of the fruits of emancipation in
contradistinction to an imitating of Gentile culture could only be
effected by an emancipation from within, by an auto-emancipation;[3]
the vision of a Jewish State grew into outline. To the consummation of
the picture, a wealth of economic, scientific, and cultural
inspiration has been devoted. Herzl and his predecessors selected the
stone which had been rejected by the philanthropists and the earnest,
but mistaken, builders of Reform Judaism in their efforts to create a
fit habitation for the European Jew; and lo! it has become the chief
corner-stone.

To assure the foundation, to justify the conception of a Jewish State,
a number of powerful arguments other than above indicated have been
brought to bear. The problem of race was attacked,[4] and a consequent
demolition of the basis of Reform Judaism undertaken, whereby the
racial identity of the Jew became demonstrated and a comparative
racial purity established. In turn, the claim of the anti-Semites that
the Jewish race indeed existed, but to the peril of Western
civilization, received scientific annihilation. At the most, the Aryan
race was proclaimed a myth and Teutonic superiority a lie;[5] at the
least, a justification of the Jewish race was achieved upon its
contribution to civilization: in metaphysics, of the vision of reality
in flux; in morals, the conception of the value of the individual; in
religion, the conception of Jehovah as a moral-arbiter; in culture, a
literature of basic inspiration for the western world.[6]

_The Moral Right of the Jewish Race to Survival_

That this race, definable in identity and valuable in content, is
being either crushed by force or dissipated by freedom, raises on one
hand the next question for creative Zionism, and constitutes on the
other the problem which Zionism in