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merchant, of the monied man generally.

The baseless law of the Jew is only the religious caricature of the
baseless morality and of right generally, of the merely formal
ceremonies which pervade the world of egoism.

Here also the highest relation of man is the legal relation--the
relation to laws which do not govern him because they are the laws of
his own will and being, but because they are imposed on him from
without. Any infraction thereof is punished.

Jewish Jesuitism, the same practical Jesuitism that Bauer infers from
the Talmud, is the relation of the world of egoism to the laws which
dominate it, and the cunning circumvention of which is the supreme art
of this world.

The movement of this world within its laws is necessarily a continual
abrogation of the law.

Judaism cannot develop any further as a religion, that is
theoretically, because the philosophy of practical needs is limited by
its nature and is exhausted in a few moves.

Judaism could create no new world; it could only draw the new world
creations and world relations within the orbit of its activity,
because the practical need whose rationale is egoism remains a passive
state, which does not extend itself by spontaneous act, but only
expands with the development of social conditions.

Judaism reaches its acme with the completion of bourgeois society, but
bourgeois society first completes itself in the Christian world. Only
under the reign of Christianity, which turns all national, natural,
moral and theoretical relations into relations external to man, can
bourgeois society separate itself entirely from the political life,
dissever all the generic ties of the individual, set egoism in the
place of these generic ties, and dissolve the human world into a world
of atomized, mutually hostile individuals.

Christianity sprang out of Judaism. It has again withdrawn into
Judaism.

The Christian from the outset was the theorizing Jew; the Jew is
therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has
again become a Jew.

Christianity had only appeared to overcome Judaism. It was too noble,
too spiritual to abolish the crudeness of practical needs except by
elevation into the blue sky.

Christianity is the sublime idea of Judaism. Judaism is the common
application of Christianity, but this application could only become
general after Christianity had completed the alienation of man from
himself, and theoretically from Nature. N