The Jews, a religious community, are yet held together by a racial solidarity; closely identified with, and patriotically devoted to, the conficting interests of many different nationalities, the Jews yet retain a common bond between the most diverse elements of their people, which is now, as it was in the far off days of Xerxes, "scattered and dispersed among the nations." What-the future may bring, the past has shown us the re markable morale of a world-wide people, which, without an inch of sell to call its own politically, without a Jcommon mother-tongue, without a secular government ora religious hierarchy, actively participates in the [shaping of world events and manifests vitality that goes from strength to strength. In accordance with the natural law of the survival of the Attest, they have justified themselves by their very existence, How has this vitality acquitted elt in the opportunity given to It {n the last two decades on Palestinian soil?
Almost entirely desert, though famed in antiquity for its fertility and abundance, the Jewish immigrant has restored to it its pristine luxuriance, Only the other day, the [Press carried Reuter news that wood one for citrus cases, valued at £12,000, was destroyed by incendiary ists. The supply of this fruit, valued Jat £2 million per annum, has outpaced the world's demand, such has been the phenomenal development of this one economic endeavour, Nineteenth century visitors to Pales-line could not but be struck between the recorded magnificence of the land. and the appearance 8 they saw it, In the reign of Herod the populous cities of Palestine were enriched with all the gifts of nature and all the refinements of art. Eighteen hundred years later the youthful Napoleon traversed a land of swamp and desert waste, supporting a population less than that of the capital alone in Jclassic times, Today, all the noblest monuments of Roman genius and power, which were left to decay, such fas the aqueducts, have been suc ceeded by the new perfections of modern engineering.
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