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20th, 1907), actually attempted to accuse President 

 Waldeyer, who took the chair at the discussion, 

 of being prejudiced in my favour. Professor 

 Waldeyer felt himself obliged to protest against 

 this groundless accusation in a subsequent number 

 of the same journal (No. 105, March 3rd.) 



My intention in alluding to the matter is only 

 to show to what means a certain section of the 

 press had recourse, in order to represent the proceed- 

 ings during the evening discussion from their point 

 of view. 



The most conclusive condemnation of the action 

 of a large proportion of the so-called liberal papers 

 was expressed in a letter that appeared on March 

 28th in No. 13 of the Israelit, Zentralorgan fur das 

 orthodoxe Judentum, which letter appeared in an 

 abbreviated form also in the Germania (No. 83, 

 April 12th.). 



As a result of the war of words which began before 

 my first lecture in Berlin on Feb. 12th, and was 

 continued for months in the liberal papers, with 

 reference especially to the evening discussion, the 

 Israelit concludes, not altogether unreasonably, that 

 * Liberalism and Intolerance in religious matters are 

 identically the same thing.' l 



1 The number of newspaper articles dealing with my Berlin lectures 

 and the evening discussion, or connected with them, already exceeds five 

 hundred. I cannot waste more time upon them. Even in the Kladdera- 

 datsch and in the Jugend there were references to me. Among the most 

 harmless results of my lectures, we hear of a * newly discovered kind of 

 sea creature,' nearly related to seals, which was described in the April 

 number (No. 13) of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. It is worth notice that 



