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for his maxim Every one for himself/’ the genius of France must 
write on its banner, ‘^All for each — each for all!’’ 
I admire the Dutchman, the Genevese, the English — all those 
Jews, calling themselves Christians — boasting of their superiority 
in the ignoble industry of traffic, where victory is assured to the 
greatest cheat 
¥/hy was the cause of popular liberties so long united with the 
cause of royalty in France ? Why did the liberty of the com- 
munes begin on the banks of the Oise, in the heart of the country 
in France most full of game, under the protecting shade of royal 
houses ? 
Because all the great kings of France are hunters, and the pas- 
sion of hunting is like the love of glory and of gallantry in their 
hearts. Let us search well in this long list of kings during four- 
teen centuries, and we shall find that the most glorious names, and 
those most cherished by popular gratitude, are the names of hunt- 
ing kings ; to begin with good King Dagobert, who found it so 
hard to take leave of his dogs, down to the unfortunate Louis XYI., 
so worthy of a better fate. There is Charles Martel, the hammer 
of the Saracens ; there is Pepin the Short, who severed the head 
of a lion with a single blow of his scimetar ; there is Charlemagne, 
the great emperor of the west, the conqueror of the Saxons, the 
* Pride has not allowed me to suppress in the author’s text the foregoing 
invectives on the Jewish people, of which I am a member. ‘‘ Let the galled 
jade wince, our withers are unwrung.” So far as the Jews have identified 
themselves with the false commerce of civilization, they well deserve this 
basting, and the sauce with which they are served up in the author’s work 
entitled “ Les Juifs Rois de I’epoch.” Their commercial character is, how- 
ever, phenomenal, and not essential — an expediency of the times — a quid 
pro quo, and courteous retort upon their constituted oppressors. 
The Jews first bore the scepter in war, under the reign of force ; now 
they bear the scepter in commerce, under the reign of fraud ; this force 
of intellect and character remaining the same, while harmonic channels of 
development are opened in place of subversive ones ; they take their fore- 
most rank among the Caucasian races in the arts and sciences, and enter 
every honorable sphere of productive industry that lies open to them. Had 
the Jews found national hospitality in the countries of their exile, they 
might have been farmers instead of merchants, and M. Toussenel have 
missed the occasion of this tirade. —T r. 
