THE HEBREW RACE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3094, 28 May 1881, Page 4

THE HEBREW RACE.

The late Earl Bpaconsfield, in his novel Endymion, thus refers to the Hebrew race, and the future position it is destined to occupy : —'You have heard to-day a great deal about the Latin race, their wondrous qualities, their peculiar destiny, their possible danger. It is a new idea, or rather a new phrase, that I observe is now getting info the political world, and is probably defined to produce consequences. No man will treat with indifference the principle of ra-jo. Tt is the key of history, and why hiVory is often so confused is that it has been writ en by men who \rere ignorant of tliis principle and all the knowledge it involves. As one who may become a statesman and assist in governing mankind, it is necessary that you should not be insensible to it; whether you encounter its influences in communities or in individuals, its qualities must v<-r be taken into account. But there is no subject which more requires discriminating knowledge, or where your illustrating principle, if you are not deeply founded, may not. chance to turn out a will-o'-the-wisp. Now this great question of the Latin race, by which M. de Vallambrosa may succceed in disturbing the world —ifc might be well to inquire where the Latin race is to be found. In the north of Italy, peopled by Germans and named after Germans, or in the sonth of Italy, swarming with the descendants of Normans and Arabs? Shall we find the Latin race in Spain, stocked by Go'hs and Moors and Jews ? Or in France, where there is a great Celtic nation, occasionally mingled with Franks? Now, I do not want to go into the origin of man and nations—l am essentially practical, and only endeavor to comprehend that with whioh 1 have personally to deal, and that is sufficiently difficult. In Europe \ find three great races with distinct qualities — the Teutons, the Sclaves, and the Celts; and their conduct will be influenced by those distinctive qualities. There is another great race which influences the world, the Semitos. Certainly, when I was at the Congress of Vienna I did not believe that the Arabs were more likely to become a conquering race again than the Tartars, and yefc it is a question at (his moment whether Mehemet .-% li at their head may not found a new empire in the Mediterranean. The Semites are unquestionably a great race, for among the few hings in this world which appear to be certain nothing i« more sure than that they invented our alphabet. But the Semites now exercise a vast, influence over affairs by their smallest, though most peculiar family, the Jews. There is no race gifted with so much tenacity and such skill in organisation, hese qualities have given them an unprecedented hold over property and illimitable credit. As you advance in life and get experience in affairs the Jews will cross you everywhere. They have long been stealing into our secret diplomacy, which they have almost appropriated ; in another quarter of a century they will claim their share of open government. Well, these are races ; men and bodies of men influenced in their conduct by their particular organisation, and which must enter into all the cal-* culations of a statesman. But what do they mean by the Latin race P Language and religion do not make a race—there is only one tiling which makes a race, and that is blood.'