good feeling and political 

 acumen of the nation. He 

 has been invested with every 

 civil privilege it is in the 

 power of the State to bestow. 

 Nay more, honors which 

 stand, as it were, at call he 

 puts aside. Consequently 

 the Jew is thoroughly identi- 

 fied with the nation. He has, 

 by means of intermarriage 

 and by apostasy, brought to 

 a law-ridden, but in its in- 

 most soul a traditionally law- 

 less, people the inestimable 

 leaven of stability. The com- 

 mercial awakening of the 

 country owes much to him ; 

 it could scarcely be other- 

 wise. He has left an in- 

 delible mark upon her insti- 

 tutions, and in other ways 

 has laid the country of his 

 adoption under obligations. 



Save for this solitary ex- 

 ception, whose attributes lift 

 it almost to another plane, 

 the failure of the Magyar to 

 assimilate elements obviously 

 and admittedly inferior, in 

 almost every sense — moral, 

 physical, mental, political — 

 is perfect and complete. 



By joining herself to Aus- 

 tria, Hungary is saved the 

 consequences of pure isola- 

 tion. 



The effect of the combina- 

 tion is to leave Hungary not 

 quite free. As a State she 

 is independent ; as a political 

 factor her identity is merged 

 in that of the Dualism. All 

 her leisure is thus devoted 

 to setting her house in order. 

 And indeed this is a work 

 which might well daunt her. 



In Western societies the 

 State is an organism whose 

 constituents embrace the 

 people. Here it is a some- 

 thing divinely inspired and 

 existing independently of the 

 citizen body. 



The Alagnates and the In- 

 tellectuals who direct the 



Photo by A. W. Cutler 



A SE^RVIAN VENDER OF ODDS AXD ENDS AT 

 BUDAPEST 



Note the curious footgear. A coarse fiber, like loose string, 

 covers the top of the shoe in uniform rows 



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