... terrible, but not to be overlooked, that precisely the Jew, in tremendous numbers, seemed chosen by Nature for this shameful calling. Is this why the Jews are called the 'chosen people''? I now began to examine carefully the names of all the creators of unclean products in public artistic life. The result was less and less favorable for my previous attitude towards the Jews. Regardless how my sentiment might resist, my reason was forced to draw its conclusions. The fact that nine-tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one-hundredth of all the country's inhabitants, could simply not be talked away: it was the plain truth. And I now began to examine my beloved 'world press' from this point of view. And the deeper I probed the more the object of my former admiration shriveled. The style ...

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