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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: of those men who spat when they spoke his name, and forcibly drew his teeth
to extract his money from him, wait patiently behind each other for
admission to his offices and palaces; while nobles solicit his daughters in
marriage and kings are proud to be summoned to his table in hope of golden
crumbs, and great questions of peace and war are often held balanced in the
hand of one little asthmatic Jew. After long ages of disgrace and
pariahism, the time has come, whether for good or for evil, when just those
qualities which the Jew possesses and which subtilely distinguish him from
others, are in demand; while those he has not are sinking into disuse;
exactly that domination of the reflective faculties over the combative,
which once made him slave, also saved him from becoming extinct in wars;
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