The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920Ford, Henry
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The International Jew, the world's foremost problem [volume I] : $b being a reprint of a series of articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Nothing has served to create "broad-mindedness," a state of mind whose
breadth indicates its lack of depth, so much as the ideas of liberalism
which the Jews are constantly teaching to Gentiles and on which they
never themselves act. We need a new sort of allegiance to the reality of
life, to the facts as they are, which will enable us to stand up under
all cajoling to "broad-mindness" and assert a new intolerance of
everything but truth. The terms "narrow" and "broad" as they are used
today represent lies. The liberal man ought to believe more, he ought to
be deep and wide in his beliefs in order to merit that name; but as a
usual thing he believes nothing. He is not liberal at all. When you seek
belief, belief with a foundation, belief with vitality, you must seek it
among men who are sneered at, under this false Jewish-propagated notion
of liberality, as "narrow men." Jewish propaganda, in common with the
Protocols, is against men who have dug down to the rock; they want
"broad-minded men" who can easily be shifted about the surface and thus
serve the invisible scheme in any manner desired. This type of men, on
their part, never imagine but that their "broad-mindedness" is a mark of
their superiority and independence.
Now, see what follows. Men are born believers. For a time they may
believe in "broad-mindedness" and under the terrific social pressure
that has been set up in its favor they will openly espouse it. But it is
too shallow to satisfy any growing roots of life. They must believe,
deeply, something. For proof of this, notice the undeniable strength of
the negative beliefs which are held by men who fancy that they believe
nothing. Therefore, some who are highly endowed with independence of
spirit, root down into those prohibited matters which at some point
touch Jewish concerns--these are the "narrow" men. But others find it
more convenient to cultivate those departments which promise a highway
whereon there shall be no clashes of vital opinion, no chance of the
charge of "intolerance"; in short they transfer all their contemplative
powers to the active life, even as it is written in the Protocols--
"To divert Gentile thought and observation, interest must be deflected
to industry and commerce."
It is amazing to look around and see the number of men who have been
actually browbeaten into committing their whole lives to these secondary
or even tertiary things, while they look with great timidity and
aversion at the vital things which really rule the world and upon the
issue of which the world really depends.
But it is just this deflection to the materialistic base that offers the
Protocolists, and similarly Jewish propagandists, their best hold.
"Broad-mindedness" today consists in leaving vital matters severely
alone. It descends quickly to material-mindedness. Within this lower
sphere all the discord which distresses the world today is to be found.
First, there is the ruin of the upper circles of industry and commerce:
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