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Finally, the great mass of European Jewry, who weep on the Ninth of
Ab, who send their pittance to the Jews of the Holy City in order that
they may devote their days to lamenting at the old Wall, who pray each
Passover "next year at Jerusalem," and who treasure their little
casket of Palestinian earth, which some day will be placed over their
shroud, look to Zionism as a "fulfillment" in its literal, Biblical
meaning. Although the yearning for such a fulfillment may never be
satisfied, it constitutes the impelling force, the prime motive,
behind the people who are to settle once again in Canaan, and who are
the stuff of which the philosophers' dreams are to be made.
The opportunists who work for the day when the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, the politicals who plan that the house of Jacob may
possess its possessions, the culturals who behold upon the mountain
the feet of him who bringeth glad tidings, the socialists who strive
to draw righteousness and peace within kissing distance, and the
devout who pray that out of Zion shall go forth the Law, are all
intermingling composites of the Zionist dream. That the dream is not
in vain, there is no positive assurance; but somewhere it is written
that Palestine _is_ the Land of Promise.
_The Organization of Zionism_
Sophistication makes for sluggishness of action; and a sophisticated,
practical people, such as the Jews, surrounded by an equally
sophisticated world, have not marched upon Jerusalem with the
flag-flying alacrity of the Crusaders. However, their sophistication
has substituted for speed a broad measure of surety; and a summary of
the organization of the movement and the work accomplished within and
without Palestine gives promise that, if the will behind Zionism be
sustained, the Jews who wail at the Wall may profitably direct their
energies elsewhere.
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