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IS THERE A JEWISH POINT OF VIEW? 185
those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable
of curing all the social ills of humanity.
It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly
in his own little world to make this teaching of pure humanity
a living force, so far as he can. If he makes an honest attempt
in this direction without being crushed and trampled underfoot
by his contemporaries, he may consider himself and the community
to which he belongs lucky.
JEWISH IDEALS
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
The pursnit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical
love of justice and the desire for personal independencethese
are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me
thank my stars that I belong to it.
Those who are raging today against the ideals of reason and
individual liberty and are trying to establish a spiritless stateslavery
by brute force rightly see in us their irreconcilable foes.
History has given us a difficult row to hoe; but so long as we remain
devoted servants of truth, justice, and liberty, we shall
continue not merely to survive as the oldest of living peoples,
but by creative work to bring fortll fruits which contribute to
the ennoblement of the human race, as heretofore.
IS THERE A JEWISH POINT OF VIEW?
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934.
In the philosophical sense there is, in my opinion, no specifically
Jewish point of view. Judaism seems to me to be concerned
almost exclusively with tl,e moral attitude in life and
to life. I look upon it as the essence of an attitude to life which
is incarnate in tl,e Jewish people rather than the essence of the