12 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



papers must have been themselves Jewish, so 

 one-sided and exaggerated do they appear to 

 have been. Whatever was the true history of 

 this outbreak of anti-Semitic feeling, I am 

 afraid that only a very small portion of the 

 hatred of the Russian for the Jew has as yet 

 found vent and exhausted itself. We ought 

 injustice to Russia to remember that she has 

 far more than her share of the Jewish race, 

 and however admirable their unity as a race, 

 in spite of their want of a fatherland, through 

 so many centuries may appear to us, to those 

 amongst whom the Jews live it may seem 

 that the children of Israel owe their unity 

 to that mtense selfishness which puts them 

 always, indirectly at any rate, in antagonism 

 with those races amongst whom and upon 

 whom they are living. 



Russia wants soldiers and agriculturists. 

 The Jews are neither one nor the other. 

 That they were a warlike people once, history 



