It is not true that the Jewish tribe bestowed the worship of a unitarian god upon the world. For one thing, most inhabitants of our earth – one only uses the term “world” for “earth” without thinking – know nothing of a unitarian god to this very day, since the majority of humans are, as the Jewish phrase goes, heathens. Furthermore, in almost all of its manifestations, the Christian church also rejects the belief in a unitarian god, since it believes in a holy trinity, and since it considers anyone who speaks of a unitarian god – in contradiction to its own beliefs – as a deliberate enemy of its own nature, which is not characterized by the babbling gospel of peace. Third, the Jews discovered the supposedly unitarian god rather late themselves, because the Decalogue knows Jahve as one god among other gods, the verse of the Torah V 6, 4 is extremely difficult to digest philologically, and the coarse and wiry corporeality of the Jewish god, kneading the first human being according to his own stature and in his own image, strolling through paradise, eating roast veal with Abraham, and revealing himself to Moses from the north side, deprives any existing Jewish monotheism of its value; because it was only the blending of Jewish formulas with Platonic thought that generated what one can properly call monotheism; and finally, because a monotheism brought into being this way is completely meaningless both philosophically and emotionally.
That the Jews are a German tribe – another thing we learn from those notables – probably does not make sense to many. What may cause reservations as well is the fact that those great scholars regard it as the common goal of all members of the German Reich [Empire] to balance out all the past differences that continue to affect the German nation – to which the Jews, incidentally, do not belong. A certain balancing constitutes perhaps a prerequisite to happiness but is certainly not happiness itself; moreover, anyone not named Meyerbeer will know more appealing music than that which proceeds in octave steps without accompaniment, and thus has no harmony.
The public stance taken by these gentlemen is valuable only insofar as it proves the strength of the movement they condemn. For one usually does not respond to individual occurrences of envy, coarseness, and wantonness with a pronunciamento that is only slightly less high-brow than that of the Secession,* one whose signatories cherish such a high opinion of themselves that they would be unlikely to throw their illustrious names into the ring for a trifle.
* A group on the left wing of the National Liberal Party who seceded from it in 1880 because they disapproved of their party’s support for protective tariffs and other elements of Bismarck’s program.
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