The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . g to theHouse, and not until the arrow had been sent withall his steady strength, did the great archer know thecircumstance which might have impaired his aim. Disraelis public course furnishes points enough towhich exception might be taken ; perhaps his per-sonal character may have been in many ways opento criticism. But certainly, if a tonic influence goesforth into the world from every man who boldlywrestles with difficulty, no one has done more in thisway to brace his generation than this superblystrong and courageous champion, rising from t
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . g to theHouse, and not until the arrow had been sent withall his steady strength, did the great archer know thecircumstance which might have impaired his aim. Disraelis public course furnishes points enough towhich exception might be taken ; perhaps his per-sonal character may have been in many ways opento criticism. But certainly, if a tonic influence goesforth into the world from every man who boldlywrestles with difficulty, no one has done more in thisway to brace his generation than this superblystrong and courageous champion, rising from thedust to guide the mightiest and haughtiest powerupon the face of the earth, so that it was obedientnot only to his deliberate will, but to his Christian and an orthodox Christian he wasthroughout his career, but none the less the mostarrogant of Jews. He feared, says his able biographer,Brandes, if he dropped the supernatural origin ofJesus, he would be depriving his race of the nimbuswhich encircles it, as the people among whom God. LUKD BEACUMbFliiLlJ. 3IO THE STORY OF THE JEWS. himself, as the Redeemer of the world, was him Christianity was only Judaism completed,Judaism for the multitude. He hate Christ! Heis the fairest flower and eternal pride of the Jewishrace, a son of the chosen royal family of the chosenpeople,—the people which in an intellectual sensehas conquered Europe, and the quarters of theworld peopled by Europeans. Northern Europeworships the son of a Jewish mother, and gives hima place at the right hand of the Creator; SouthernEurope worships besides, as queen of heaven, aJewish maiden. Commemorating the glories ofJerusalem, Disraeli bursts out in his Tancred : There might be counted heroes and sages whoneed shrink from no rivalry with the brightest andwisest of other lands,-—a lawgiver of the time of thePharaohs whose laws are still obeyed : a monarchwhose reign has ceased three thousand years, butwhose wisdom is still a proverb in a
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