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stock? And third, is there any reason to think that the Jews 

 really change in response to their physical environment? 



As to the variability we may quote Radosavljevich in regard 

 to his study of European and American school children : "Hebrew 

 children, both in America and abroad, show the greatest variation ; 

 then come the Anglo-Saxon, then the Latin. The least variation 

 is shown by Slav pupils." Another evidence of the extreme 

 variability of the Jews is our own observation. Is there any race 

 among which we have known a greater contrast between the ones 

 whom we admire and those whom we would gladly do without? 

 Turning to the world at large we see strong evidence of the 

 variable quality of the race in the number of men of genius whom 

 it has produced. Moses, David, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, and Jesus, 

 these are a few of the great names of the past. The two Mendels- 

 sohns, Neander, Heine, Brandes, the Herschels, the Rothschilds, 

 and Disraeli show in how many lines modern Jews have risen far 

 above the average level. Compare this race with the Negroes. 

 Both have endured most bitter persecution, but the Jew has 

 always bobbed up, as one may say, while the Negro has stayed 

 down. Look through any scientific bibliography, or any list of 

 business leaders in a city like New York, and see how thickly the 

 Jewish names are sprinkled. Make what allowance you will for 

 opportunities and environment. Perhaps southern slavery was 

 worse than the repression and pogroms of the Russian Pale. In 

 New York, however, it is hard to see wherein the Jews whose 

 parents were slain and tortured in the Russian massacres have 

 any greater advantage than the Negroes whose grandparents 

 were whipped in Louisiana. Yet see how the Negroes drop out 

 of the upper grades in the elementary schools, become scarce in 

 the high schools, and disappear from the colleges. See how the 

 Jews, on the contrary, elbow the Gentiles out of Columbia, New 

 York University, and other higher institutions. Scores of those 

 same Jews will later sit in high seats as business men, professors, 

 diplomats, and philanthropists. To be sure there are about ten 



