Excerpt from Jews and Judaism in the Nineteenth Century
We are standing on the border line between two centuries, a solemn moment which it behooves us to use for a review of the past and a survey of the future. To review the past will naturally be more profitable than to survey the future. A retrospect can yield instruction, but our view of the future is obscured by enveloping fog and heavy clouds. Sentimental reflections, however, avail naught. A long history overflowing with pain has taught the Jew the truth of what the Preacher uttered from out of the fulness of his experience: "The generations come, and the generations go, the earth stands forever." Nearly the same thought is expressed by one of the archangels in the Prologue to Faust, in his greeting to the dawn of a new day of eternity:
"The sun-orb sings, in emulation,
"Mid brother-spheres, his ancient round:
His path predestined through Creation
He ends with step of thunder-sound."
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