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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair', 1.
  • Essays 'Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair', 2.
  • Essays 'Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair', 3.
Extract

The Semite is money-grubbing, greedy scheming, subtle, sly; the Aryan is enthusiastic, heroic, chivalrous, disinterested, frank, trustful to the point of naiveté. The Semite is an earth-dweller scarcely seeing beyond his present life; the Aryan in a son of the sky ceaselessly preoccupied with superior aspirations. The one lives in reality, the other in the ideal. The Semite is by instinct a merchant. He has a vocation for trade, a genius for all matters of exchange, for everything giving an opportunity to deceive his fellow man. …

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