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rob the human race of all that is divine, degrading God's 

 noblest work far beneath the level of His brute creation. 



And now, having shown that civilised warfare tends 

 towards devolution, by leaving the least fit to propagate 

 the race, let me go on to illustrate the fact that peace must 

 ever tend to preserve the virility of a nation. 



Nothing is to me more striking than the survival of 

 the Jew. For three thousand years, whilst the great 

 mihtary Empires of the World have successively risen 

 and then rotted in decay, the Jew has survived ; and he 

 has survived, not because he has been cleverer than his 

 neighbours, but simply because he has been more moral. 

 Indeed the Jews are still the most moral race under the 

 sun, their ideal of home life and their sense of parental 

 responsibility being far higher than ours. Thus the 

 infantile mortality amongst the poor Jews in my own 

 city is scarcely half as great as it is amongst the poor 

 ** Christians.'' 



One could scarcely have a more striking illustration 

 of the fact that moral and spiritual forces are stronger 

 than physical forces and in the end must prevail. It is 

 not force of arms but force of righteousness that truly 

 exalteth a nation. 



When the Act for the feeding of school children first 

 came into operation, I was told by the Medical Officer 

 of our Education Department in Manchester, that when 

 he went through the poorer Jewish schools, in order to 

 pick out the underfed children so that they might be 

 fed from the rates, he could not find one. 



There are not two kinds of truth — religious truth and 

 scientific truth. All truth is one, and when Christ 

 taught the doctrine of non-resistance and love at any 

 price. He taught not only the highest religion, but the 

 most profound science. 



If a nation were wise and cared for its existence, it 

 would not fight for it. It would refuse to fight. 



