Excerpt from The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times
To my Christian fellow-countrymen I would say - The English are a business people. While they devote their genius and their energy to the elaboration of practical science, they give little attention to abstract truths. They rather leave these to the few whose peculiar profession it is to deal with them. Thus, religion and its necessary adjunct, Biblical research, are, for the most part, taken for granted as they are expounded by the representatives of the Church. In this way Judaism has come to be entirely misunderstood. It has been so universally described as a thing of obsolete forms and custom - as incompatible with progress as the associate of a low standard of morality - as the obstacle preventing the approach to heaven rather than the ladder reaching thither - that the world has grown to believe what few have taken the trouble to contradict, and still fewer to deem inconsistent with a dispensation acknowledged as divine.
The Bible, which might serve as a guide, has been so spiritualized, that even they who read it scarcely allow their judgment to interfere with interpretations which they have been accustomed to regard as authoritative. It has been so mistranslated, that even they who desire to judge are prevented by want of proper materials.
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