self.

The emancipation of the Jews in its last significance is the
emancipation of mankind from Judaism.

The Jew has already emancipated himself in Jewish fashion. "The Jew
who in Vienna, for example, is only tolerated, determines by his
financial power the fate of the whole Empire. The Jew who may be
deprived of rights in the smallest German State, determines the fate
of Europe."

"While the corporations and guilds excluded the Jew, the enterprise of
industry laughs at the obstinacy of the medieval institution." (Bauer,
"The Jewish Question," p. 14.)

This is no isolated fact. The Jew has emancipated himself in Jewish
fashion, not only by taking to himself financial power, but by virtue
of the fact that with and without his co-operation, money has become
a world power, and the practical Jewish spirit has become the
practical spirit of Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated
themselves in so far as Christians have become Jews.

"The pious and politically free inhabitant of New England," relates
Colonel Hamilton, "is a kind of Laokoon, who does not make even the
slightest effort to free himself from the serpents which are
throttling him. Mammon is his god, he prays to him, not merely with
his lips, but with all the force of his body and mind.

"In his eyes, the world is nothing more than a Stock Exchange, and he
is convinced that here below he has no other destiny than to become
richer than his neighbours. When he travels, he carries his shop or
his counter on his back, so to speak, and talks of nothing but
interest and profit."

The practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world has
reached such a point in North America that the preaching of the Gospel
itself, the Christian ministry, has become an article of commerce, and
the bankrupt merchant takes to the Gospel, while the minister grown
rich goes into business.

"He whom you see at the head of a respectable congregation began as a
merchant; his business failing, he became a minister. The other
started his career in the ministry, but as soon as he had saved a sum
of money, he abandoned the pulpit for the counter. In the eyes of a
large number, the ministry is a commercial career." Beaumont.

According to Bauer, to withhold political rights from the Jew in
theory, while in practice he wields enormous power, exercising
wholesale the influence he is forbidden to distribute in retail, is an
anomaly.

The contradiction between the practical, p