it is always, therefore, a question of outward experience, not of inner; the conceptions are always thoroughly concrete, material; as montefiore assures us, even in the advanced jewish religion there is nothing which the dullest might not immediately understand and fathom to its uttermost depth; as soon as a man has a feeling of a mystery, as soon as he, for instance, supposes that there can be anything symbolical in the history of the creation, he is a heretic and a gallows-bird.  even the utterly materialised history of creation given in the book of genesis is so manifestly alien and borrowed that it remains totally isolated amid the israelitish tradition and without actual connection with it.  the will in fact gives little rope to the understanding and the imagination. so it is that the semite who has begun to doubt at once becomes an atheist; there is in any case no secret, no mystery: if allah is not the creator, then must matter be; as an explanation of the world there is scarcely the shadow of a difference between the two views, for in the case of neither does the semite feel himself in the presence of an inexplicable riddle, a superhuman mystery. foundations of the 19th century, houston stewart chamberlain the jewish state has never been delimited in space. it has been spread all over the world, without any frontiers whatsoever, and has always been constituted from the membership of one race exclusively. that is why the jews have always formed a state within the state. one of the most ingenious tricks ever devised has been that of sailing the jewish ship of state under the flag of religion and thus securing that tolerance which aryans are always ready to grant to different religious faiths. the mosaic law is really nothing else than the doctrine of the preservation of the jewish race and, therefore, includes all spheres of sociological, political and economic science which have a bearing on the main end in view. mein kampf, adolf hitler
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