“That great event took away from the Jews their country and their temporal government; it scattered them over the face of the earth, _but it did not destroy the national and race idea_ which was a part of their nature and of their religion.” “Who shall say, then, that the Jews are no longer a race?... Blood is the basis and sub-stratum of the race idea, and no people on the face of the globe can lay claim with so much right to purity of blood, and unity of blood, as the Jews.” “If I have reasoned to any purpose, the inquiry of rights in the premises is not to be limited to Jews as exponents of a particular creed, but _to the Jews as a race_.” (Pages 190–191) “The religion alone does not constitute the people. As I have already maintained, a believer in the Jewish faith does not by reason of that fact become a Jew. On the other hand, however, _a Jew by birth remains a Jew, even though he abjures his religion_.” (Page 200) This is the view of such men as Justice Brandeis, the Jew who sits on the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Brandeis says, “Let us all recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality _of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station, his shade of belief, is necessarily a member_.” Believing all this, Mr. Levi subscribes to the Jewish law and practice of exclusiveness. Describing the state of the Jews, Mr. Levi says (page 92): “The Jews have not materially increased or diminished in numbers for 2,000 years. They have made no proselytes to their religion.... They have imbibed the arts, the literature and the civilization of successive generations, but have abstained very generally from intermixture of blood.... They have infused their blood into that of other peoples but have taken little of other peoples into their own.” As to intermarriage between the Jew and non-Jew, Mr. Levi calls it miscegenation. “In remote countries, sparsely populated, the choice may lie between such marriages and a worse relation.” Those are his words on page 249. He does not advise the worse relation, but he has said quite enough to indicate the Jewish view of the case. He continues: “It seems clear to me that Jews should avoid marriages with Gentiles and Gentiles with Jews, _upon the same principle that we avoid marrying the insane, the consumptive, the scrofulitic or the Negro_.” (Page 249)