And until such evidence is forthcoming, “let us not slacken our efforts, and let us avoid undue haste. Let us increase our devotion to our people and our love for our ancestral land, and the God of Zion will help us.” Footnote 4: [_i.e._, Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine.] Footnote 5: [_Chalukah_—lit. “division”—is the Hebrew name for the stream of charity which flows—or flowed before the war—into Palestine from all quarters of the Jewish dispersion. Intended primarily for the support of scholars, it has in practice done much to pauperise the Jewish population in the cities of Palestine, and has created a problem which it may take a generation or more of economic progress to solve.] Footnote 6: [Baron Edmond de Rothschild.] Footnote 7: The Jewish teachers of the period (roughly) from 200 B.C. to 200 C.E. They were responsible for the Mishnah—the first Code of Jewish Law after the Pentateuch—and for the earliest commentaries on the Bible or parts of it, one of which is called _Sifré_. Footnote 8: [A Turkish measure = about ¼ acre.] Footnote 9: [The Hebrew paper in which this and the foregoing essay originally appeared.] Footnote 10: A. Müller, _Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie_, XIV., p. 435. Footnote 11: Henry George, _Progress and Poverty_, p. 352. Footnote 12: Ed. Zeller, _Vorträge_, II., p. 434. Footnote 13: Du Bois-Reymond, _Reden_, I., p. 309. THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS (1897[14]) The Congress of the Zionists, the subject of a controversy which has filled the emptiness of our little world for some months past, is now a piece of history. About two hundred Jews, of all lands and of all parties, met at Basle, and for three days (29-31 August) from morning till evening they discussed publicly, in the sight of the whole world, the establishment of a secure home for the Jewish people in the land of its ancestors. Thus the _national_ answer to the “Jewish problem” came out of its retirement into the light of day, and was proclaimed to the world in ringing tones, in clear language and in manly fashion—a thing the like of which had never happened since the Jews were exiled from their land. That is all. The Congress could do no more, had need to do no more.