of the poet and the purposeful
vagueness of the modern evolutionist; the fantasy of the Hungarian,
the dramatic self-consciousness of the literary artist, the heart of
the Jew.

Is one less a poet because he regards the laws of reality, less
religious because he accepts them, less a Jew because he will live in
his own century? Our dreamer will have none of the Mediaeval, is
enamoured of the Modern; has lurking admiration of the "over-man" of
Nietzsche, even to be overpassed by the coming Jerusalem Jew; the
psychical Eurasian, the link and interpreter between East and
West--nay, between antiquity and the modern spirit; the synthesis of
mankind, saturated with the culture of the nations, and now at last
turning home again, laden with the spiritual spoils of the world--for
the world's benefit. He shall found an ideal modern state, catholic
in creed, righteous in law, a centre of conscience--even
geographically--in a world relapsing to Pagan chaos. And its flag
shall be a "shield of David," with the Lion of Judah rampant, and
twelve stars for the Tribes. No more of the cringing and the
whispering in dark corners; no surreptitious invasion of Palestine.
The Jew shall demand right, not tolerance. Israel shall walk erect.
And he, Israel's spokesman, will not juggle with diplomatic
combinations--he will play cards on table. He has nothing to say to
the mob, Christian or Jewish, he will not intrigue with political
underlings. He is no demagogue; he will speak with kings in their
palaces, with prime ministers in their cabinets. There is a touch of
the +hubris+ of Lassalle, of the magnificence of Manasseh Bueno
Barzillai Azevedo Da Costa, King of the question-beggars.

Do you object that the poor will be the only ones to immigrate to
Palestine? Why, it is just those that we want. Prithee, how else shall
we make our roads and plant our trees? No mention now of the Eurasian
exemplar, the synthetic "over-man." Perhaps he is only to evolve. Do
you suggest that an inner ennobling of scattered Israel might be the
finer goal, the truer antidote to anti-Semitism? Simple heart, do you
not see it is just for our good--not our bad--qualities that we are
persecuted? A jugglery--specious enough for the moment--with the word
"good"; forceful "struggle-for-life" qualities substituted for
spiritual, for ethical. And yet to doubt that the world would--and
does--respond sympathetically to the finer elements so abundantly in
Israel, is it not to