re these to other men,
elementary satisfactions which they are born into and take for granted
as their inevitable heritage.) Eagerly, therefore, greedily, perhaps,
he sees new things; the goal of twenty centuries of wandering stands
revealed before him. The Irish have found a home in America, the
Germans, the Italians, the Poles, and why not the neediest of all, the
Jews? The American University typifies the ideals of the great
democracy where "race, creed and previous conditions" are forgotten.
Here all men forget their prejudices. All men become brothers.

_But Not Yet Are All Men Brothers_

BUT hold, have we not been expressing a wish rather than a fact? We
look into our own hearts, and strife and jealousy and racial
antagonism are still there. Can we expect that man who has but lately
begun to think of brotherhood can already feel it in his blood; that
the age-long superstition against the Jew can be obliterated with a
new geographical boundary--though that boundary be indeed serene as
the all-washing, all-embracing Atlantic? Oh, that "reality does not
correspond to our conceptions," exclaims Wilhelm Meister.

For centuries the Jews had a respected and comfortable home in Spain,
but then came the fearful Inquisition, and the ninth day of Ab 1492
saw 300,000 of them exiled out of the country they had helped grow to
culture and wealth. There was the Declaration of the Rights of Man
during the French Revolution, but then came the Dreyfus affair a
century later. There was science and enlightenment in United Germany,
but never was anti-Semitism more pronounced, more scientific than
there between 1875 and '80. In 1881 the May Laws were passed in
Russia. In 1882 there was a ritual murder trial in Hungary. Our
statutes and sciences, after all, are but ways and means, improved
ways and means, to what?--often to unimproved ends, it seems. Our
learning and knowledge are what?--but channels to educate, to lead out
(e-duco) the noble qualities in man? yes; perhaps also his jealousies
and hatreds. And thus there comes a time of doubt. The courtesies and
learning of this university life, reflects the Jewish student, perhaps
but cover up these jealousies and hatreds, make them more polite, and
all the more painful therefore. However much he will not, he sees
cliques and denominational clubs all about him: Catholic clubs,
Lutheran clubs, Jewish clubs; in the lecture room the gentiles form
their groups and the Jews form theirs;