enson, Marconi, Edison, Pasteur, nor Madame Curie were of the
Jewish race, and the same might be said of nearly all the greatest men
who have lived since the dawn of our civilization. Napoleon was not a
Jew, nor was Shakespeare, nor Bacon, nor Sir Isaac Newton, nor Michael
Angelo, nor Leonardo da Vinci, nor Galileo, nor Dante, nor Descartes,
nor Moliere, nor Emerson, nor Abraham Lincoln, nor Goethe, nor Kant, nor
even Machiavelli. Thrown on their own resources, what civilization were
the Jews able to create? Whilst Egypt, Greece, and Rome have left
immortal monuments, what monuments has Palestine bequeathed to the
world?[858]

The Jews, then, provide a high average of cleverness, but have they ever
during the last two thousand years produced one mighty genius? Moreover,
against this high average of intelligence must be set an equally high
average of mental derangement. On this point we have the evidence of the
_Jewish Encyclopaedia_:

The Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than
the other races and peoples among which they dwell. Hysteria and
neurasthenia appear to be most frequent. Some physicians of large
experience among Jews have even gone so far as to state that most
of them are neurasthenic and hysterical. Tobler claims that all
the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical; and Raymond says that
in Warsaw, Poland, hysteria is very frequently met with among both
Jewish men and Jewish women. The Jewish population of that city
alone is almost exclusively the inexhaustible source for the supply
of hysterical males for the clinics of the whole Continent
(_L'Etude des Maladies du Systeme Nerveux en Russie_). As regards
Austria and Germany, the same neurotic taint of the Jews has been
emphasized by Krafft, Ebbing, etc.... In New York it has been shown
by Collins that among 333 cases of neurasthenia which came under
his observation, more than 40 per cent, were of Jewish extraction,
etc.[859]

The same American neuro-psychiatrist already quoted attributes the
predominance of Jews in the revolutionary movement in America largely to
this cause:

Anarchists have been developed largely from the criminal classes,
and a belief in anarchy, _per se_, is a psychopathic manifestation.
A student of anarchy, therefore, would not only be obliged to cover
the field of criminology, but its more significant and impor