If the Jews were not strikingly different from the rest of humanity, how could it be that one immediately recognizes the Jew among all peoples? —

13) Wherein is the racial difference supposed to lie?

The European peoples almost all belong to the Aryan or Indo-Germanic race, whereas the Jews belong to the Semitic race. The Aryan peoples are of a more sedentary nature; they practice agriculture, trades, art, and science; they are state-founding, courageous, and brave; the fundamental trait of their character is straightforwardness, honesty, loyalty, and devotion. — They are the actual civilized peoples. The genuine Semites, on the other hand, are by nature nomads; they have no truly permanent residences, no real fatherland. They move to where the best booty beckons. They do not build or cultivate anything themselves; they seek out the cultural sites created by foreign diligence, exploit the existing favorable conditions, graze the pastures, so to speak, and leave them plundered and desolate. Agriculture, technology, and art are as foreign to them as any honest, creative work. They give the impression of despising work, but in truth, they lack the abilities for it. The Semitic nomads of the desert (Bedouins)

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