in a vacant seat to keep him from getting it; and a dog goes further, and does as a savage would—­challenges him on the spot.  The German dictionary seems to make no distinction between a stranger and a foreigner; in its view a stranger is a foreigner—­a sound position, I think.  You will always be by ways and habits and predilections substantially strangers—­foreigners—­wherever you are, and that will probably keep the race prejudice against you alive.

But you were the favourites of Heaven originally, and your manifold and unfair prosperities convince me that you have crowded back into that snug place again.  Here is an incident that is significant.  Last week in Vienna a hailstorm struck the prodigious Central Cemetery and made wasteful destruction there.  In the Christian part of it, according to the official figures, 621 window-panes were broken; more than 900 singing-birds were killed; five great trees and many small ones were torn to shreds and the shreds scattered far and wide by the wind; the ornamental plants and other decorations of the graces were ruined, and more than a hundred tomb-lanterns shattered; and it took the cemetery’s whole force of 300 labourers more than three days to clear away the storm’s wreckage.  In the report occurs this remark—­and in its italics you can hear it grit its Christian teeth:  ’...lediglich die israelitische Abtheilung des Friedhofes vom Hagelwetter ganzlich verschont worden war.’  Not a hailstone hit the Jewish reservation!  Such nepotism makes me tired.

Point No. 6.—­’What has become of the Golden Rule?’

It exists, it continues to sparkle, and is well taken care of.  It is Exhibit A in the Church’s assets, and we pull it out every Sunday and give it an airing.  But you are not permitted to try to smuggle it into this discussion, where it is irrelevant and would not feel at home.  It is strictly religious furniture, like an acolyte, or a contribution-plate, or any of those things.  It has never intruded into business; and Jewish persecution is not a religious passion, it is a business passion.

To conclude.—­If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race.  It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.  Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of.  He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.  His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.  He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him.  He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it.  The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendour, then faded to dream-stuff