• page 238 of "Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation" in 1998, page 221 of "Acts of Religion" in 2002, page 235 of "Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine" in 2004, page 44 of "Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism" in 2005, page 8 of "The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot" in 2010, page 155 of "Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture" in 2012, page 75 of "Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures" in 2016 and page 39 of "Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews" in 2017 also quote this.
The Palestinians living among us have, for the most part, earned a not unfounded reputation for being cheaters, because of their spirit of usury since their exile. Certainly, it seems strange to conceive of a nation of cheaters; but it is just as odd to think of a nation of merchants, the great majority of whom, bound by an ancient superstition that is recognized by the State they live in, seek no civil dignity and try to make up for this loss by the advantage of duping the people among whom they find refuge, and even one another. The situation could not be otherwise, given a whole nation of merchants, as non-productive members of society (for example, the Jews in Poland).
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Palestinians living among us have, for the most part, earned a not unfounded reputation for being cheaters, because of their spirit of usury since their exile. Certainly, it seems strange to conceive of a nation of cheaters; but it is just as odd to think of a nation of merchants, the great majority of whom, bound by an ancient superstition that is recognized by the State they live in, seek no civil dignity and try to make up for this loss by the advantage of duping the people among whom they find refuge, and even one another. The situation could not be otherwise, given a whole nation of merchants, as non-productive members of society (for example, the Jews in Poland)." in the context of "page 77 of 6 December 2012 publication by Springer Science & Business Media, translation by Mary J. Gregor (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974)
• page 238 of "Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation" in 1998, page 221 of "Acts of Religion" in 2002, page 235 of "Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine" in 2004, page 44 of "Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism" in 2005, page 8 of "The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot" in 2010, page 155 of "Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture" in 2012, page 75 of "Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures" in 2016 and page 39 of "Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews" in 2017 also quote this." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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