theodor fritsch - handbuch der judenfrage, 1907  "the greeks viewed nature with their theoretical senses; they heard heavenly music in the harmonious course of the stars; they saw nature rising from the foam of the all-bearing ocean in the form of venus anadyomene. the israelites, on the other hand, only opened their gastric senses to nature; only in their palate did they find a taste for nature; only in the consumption of manna did they become aware of their god. the greeks studied humanities, the liberal arts, philosophy; the israelites did not rise above the bread-and-butter study of theology. in the evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be satisfied with bread, and you shall know that i am the lord your god. ' (ex. 16:12.) and jacob made a vow, saying, 'if god will be with me and keep me on the way that i go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to clothe me, and will bring me back to my father in peace, then shall the lord be my god.' (ex. 28:20.) eating is the most solemn act, or at least the initiation, of the jewish religion. in eating, the israelite celebrates and renews the act of creation; in eating, man declares nature to be a thing of no value in itself. when the seventy elders went up the mountain with moses, 'they saw god, and when they had seen god, they drank and ate.' (ex. 24:10, 11.) the sight of the supreme being thus only increased their appetite for food. the jews have preserved their peculiarity to this day. their principle, their god, is the most practical principle in the world: egoism, and indeed egoism in the form of religion. - ludwig feuerbach, the essence of christianity. leipzig 1841. (3rd ed. in complete works, 7th vol. leipzig 1849 [...]"
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