Now other Jews may vilify and crucify you for these outspoken views of yours; I myself shall abstain from joining the chorus of condemnation! I shall try to understand your opinions and your feelings, and having once understood them—as I think I have—I can defend you from the unjust attacks of my often too impetuous Race. But first of all, I have to say this: _There is scarcely an event in modern Europe that cannot be traced back to the Jews. Take the Great War that appears to have come to an end, ask yourself what were its causes and its reasons: you will find them in nationalism. You will at once answer that nationalism has nothing to do with the Jews, who, as you have just proved to us, are the inventors of the international idea._ But no less than Bolshevist Ecstasy and Financial Tyranny can National Bigotry (if I may call it so) _be finally followed back to a Jewish source_—are not they the inventors of the Chosen People Myth, and is not this obsession part and parcel of the political credo of every modern nation, _however small and insignificant it may be_? And then think of the history of nationalism. It started in our time and as a reaction against Napoleon; Napoleon was the antagonist of the French Revolution; the French Revolution was the consequence of the German Reformation; the German Reformation was based upon a crude Christianity; this kind of Christianity was invented, preached and propagated by the Jews; THEREFORE the Jews have made this war!... Please do not think this a joke; it only seems a joke, and behind it there lurks a gigantic truth, and it is this, _that all latter-day ideas and movements have originally sprung from a Jewish source_, for the simple reason, that the Semitic idea has finally conquered and entirely subdued this _only apparently irreligious universe of ours_. ... There is no doubt that the Jews regularly go one better or worse than the Gentile in whatever they do, there is no further doubt that _their influence today justifies a very careful scrutiny, and cannot possibly be viewed without serious alarm_. The great question, however, is whether the Jews are conscious or unconscious malefactors; I myself am firmly convinced that they are unconscious ones, but please do not think that I wish to exonerate them on that account.... A conscious evildoer has my respect, for he knows at least what is good; an unconscious one—well, he needs the charity of Christ—a charity which is not mine—to be forgiven for not knowing what he is doing. But there is in my firm conviction not the slightest doubt that these revolutionary Jews do not know what they are doing; that they are more unconscious sinners than voluntary evildoers.