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Reign of Law and Unity of Nature. 
“ The Endowment of Research,” I said : — “ On the face of 
it one would say that the Duke would not do any of the 
following things : 1st, maintain as true what he does not 
believe to be so ; 2nd, advance as truth what he does not 
know to be fadt or fable ; 3rd, maintain a personal or popu- 
lar dogma as a truth until the contrary is demonstrated ; 
4th, refuse to acknowledge that any position taken up by 
him is unsound on its being proved to be so, or that there is 
no reasonable foundation for it ; and 5th, allow his opinion 
to influence others on any subjedt he may have maintained 
after it has been proved to be fallacious ” (p. 199). 
The position taken up by the Duke in regard to this 
matter is as follows : — “ It is not surprising, therefore, that 
the preservation of the Jews .... is tacitly assumed by 
many persons to come stridtly within the category of mira- 
culous events.” To this I replied thus : — “ Why should 
that be assumed, tacitly or otherwise ? What if it is only a 
‘ vulgar error,’ started by some person now unknown, and 
echoed by others after him ? ” (p. 162). The Duke further 
said that the preservation of the Jews is “a striking illus- 
tration how a departure from the ‘ordinary course of Nature ’ 
maybe effected through the instrumentality of means which 
are natural and comprehensible.” 
In the article I went very fully into this subject, and 
among other things said that “ the isolation of the Jews is 
in exadt harmony with the customs and genius of that part 
of the world where they originated and had their existence 
as a people, and which has been increased immeasurably by 
the special genius of their nation, from the call of Abraham, 
that it was to exist distindt from all others, and continue so 
for ever. And the Jews have been so persecuted or disliked 
by other nations that they have never, as a people, had the 
opportunity of ‘ amalgamating and becoming lost among 
others,’ assuming that they ever had the wish to do it ” 
(p. 163). “ I have discussed the subjedt pretty fully in the 
work, showing that the existence of the Jews since the dis- 
persion is in exadt harmony with even natural law, and that 
it would have been a miracle had they ceased to be Jews, 
and become anything else than what they are to-day, and 
that there is no analogy between their history and that of 
any European nation ” (p. 161), and particularly owing to 
them all being “ children of Abraham and Sarah.” “ Para- 
doxical as it may appear, the way to preserve the existence 
of a people is to scatter it, provided it is a race totally dis- 
tindt from those among whom it may be cast, and has inhe- 
rent peculiarities calculated to keep it separate from others ; 
