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as tlie Saxon, lie is much more ambitious of applause. Liking 
to wield power, he aims to rule by series of fixed principles, which 
he can invent but cannot control. Fond of art, he is busy ever in 
turning Saxon heaps into goodly palaces. This race forms the 
artistic part and active social part of English life. It is a race of 
qualities, and in its surnames, when they differ from the Saxon, 
it takes what it represents, qualities as distinct from things. 
When now we look at the Jew in England, he is as he ever 
was, except, happily, that he is less oppressed. Small of stature, 
dark of complexion, and, by comparison, feeble of limb, he differs 
as much from Saxon as from Celt, although socially he combines 
more readily with the Saxon. The labour of the Saxon in the 
fields, on the waves, in the factory, in the mines, he despises, or 
at all events disowns, for his part. The battle field of the Celt 
gives him no idea of glory. Still he labours hard in his own line, 
which is that of utilising commercially the muscular labour of 
the Saxon, and the artistic labour of the Celt. He maintains a 
strong sympathy with all his own race, but towards other races, 
though he may be friendly disposed to them, he feels no bond. 
His domestic life is, as a rule, the most perfect ; and his vitality 
far surpasses that of his compeers. Provident of his own and 
protective of his brother, his rival races know so little of his 
poor, that a professed Jew in an English workhouse is a wonder. 
He carries, as his name, either that of his fathers, or the name 
that was imposed upon him when he was the most oppressed ; 
or now sometimes changes his name, taking one of Latin 
origin, as Lawrance. These are the Jews proper, if I may 
use the term, those who still retain their peculiarities as a 
people ; they, however, represent but a comparatively small 
proportion of the Jewish element amongst us. If name and 
type of body may be taken for evidence of race, as the theory I 
offer suggests, there exists in our midst a population of feebly 
Christianised Jews, equal probably, in numbers, to either of the 
other races, which blends with the other races, yet remains racially 
distinct, and unconsciously acts, in politics, commerce, and 
education, sympathetically and practically with the professed 
Jews, from whom it seems to hold itself apart. 
In politics, the Saxon is democrat ; the Celt aristocrat and 
feudal ; the Jew neutral, but leaning towards the Celtic side, 
especially in his desire to found a great house and exalt his own 
race. 
In religion, the Saxon is Protestant in the fullest sense of 
that word, to the extent, indeed, of claiming the most perfect 
right of judging for himself, and of hating any and every 
functionary who shall dare to judge for him. The Celt is 
Catholic ; he is lured by the sacred symbolism of the Church ; he 
lets his every sense luxuriate in the mysteries of the altar, and 
