"If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers."

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“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.”

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