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for all help. With these conceits, theytake control of the
needy as a property,justas in generaltheyare charitable
and helpfulout of a desire for property. One finds them
jealouswhen theyare crossed or forestalledin their charity.
Parents involuntarily make somethinglike themselves out of
their children" theycallthat "education" ; no mother doubts
at the bottom of her heart that the child she has bom is
therebyher property, no father hesitates about his righ to
his own ideas and notions of worth. Indeed,in former times
fathersdeemed it righ to use their discretionconcerning life or death of the newly bom (asamongst the ancient Germans).
And like the father, so also do the teacher, the class,
the priest, and the princestillsee in every new individual an
unobjectionableopportunityfor a new possession. The
consequence is. . . .
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The a Jews" people "bora for slavery," as Tacitus and the
whole ancient world say of them;"the chosen peopleamong
the nations," as theythemselves say and believe" the Jews
performedthe miracle of the inversion of valuations, by
means of which life on earth obtained a new and dangerous
charm for a coupleof millenniums. Their prophets fused
into one the expressions "rich,"godless," "wicked,"violent,"
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"sensual," and for the first time coined the word
"world" as a term of reproach Ịn this inversion of valuations
(inwhich is also included the use of the word "poor"
as synonymous with "saint" and "friend")the significance
of the Jewishpeopleis to be foimd;it is with them
slave-insurrectionin morals
commences.
that the