“If it had not been for Israel,” he continues, “and the stern check which Israel put upon the glorification and divinization of this natural bend of mankind.... And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they would find nowhere else. As well imagine a man with a sense for sculpture not cultivating it by the help of the remains of Greek art, or a man with a sense for poetry not cultivating it by the help of Homer and Shakespeare, as a man with a sense for conduct not cultivating it by the help of the Bible.”¹ ¹ _Literature and Dogma_ ... By Matthew Arnold ... London ... 1873 ... _pp._ 26, 36‒37 and 56. IV. “ESPERANÇA DE ISRAEL,” BY MANASSEH BEN-ISRAEL מקוה ישראל | _Esto es_, | Esperança | De Israel. | Obra con suma curiosidad conpuesta | _por_ | Menasseh Ben Israel | Theologo, y Philosopho Hebreo. | Trata del admirable esparzimiento de los diez | Tribus, y su infalible reduccion con los de | mas, a la patria: con muchos puntos, | y Historias curiosas, y declara-|cion de varias Prophecias, | por el Author rectamen-|te interpretadas. | _Dirigido a los señores Parnassim del_ K.K. | _de_ Talmvd Tora. | En Amsterdam. | En la Imprension de | Semvel Ben Israel Soeiro.¹ | Año. 5410. | (_sm._ 8º. 7 _ll. _ + 126 _pp._)² [I. S.]