ssessed by those who have
acquired and earned them."

"Can they really be claimed by the Jew? So long as he is a Jew, the
limiting quality which makes him a Jew must triumph over the human
quality which binds him as a man to other men, and must separate him
from gentiles. By this separation he proclaims that the special
quality which makes him a Jew is his real supreme quality, to which
the human quality must give place."

"In the same manner the Christian as Christian cannot grant the rights
of man," pp. 19, 20.

According to Bauer, the individual must sacrifice the "privilege of
faith" in order to be able to receive the general rights of man. Let
us consider for a moment the so-called rights of man, in fact the
rights of man in their authentic shape, in the shape which they
possess among their discoverers, the North Americans and the French.
In part these rights of man are political rights, rights which are
only exercised in the community with others. Participation in the
affairs of the community, in fact of the political community, forms
their substance. They come within the category of political freedom,
of civil rights, which does not, as we have seen, by any means
presuppose the unequivocal and positive abolition of religion, and
therefore of Judaism. It remains to consider the other aspect of human
rights, the _droits de l'homme_ apart from the _droits du citoyen_.

Among them is to be found liberty of conscience, the right to practise
any cult to one's liking. The privilege of belief is expressly
recognized, either as a human right or as the consequence of a human
right, of freedom.

_Declaration of the rights of man and of citizenship, 1791, article
10_:[7] _No penalty should attach to the holding of religious
opinions. The right of every man to practise the religious cult to
which he is attached is guaranteed by clause 1 of the Constitution of
1791._

_The Declaration of the Rights of Man, etc., 1793, includes among
human rights, article 7_: _The free practice of cults. With respect to
the right to publish ideas and opinions and to assemble for the
practice of a cult, it is even stated: The necessity for enunciating
these rights presupposes either the presence or the recent memory of a
despotism._

_Constitution of Pennsylvania, article 9, paragraph 3_: _All men have
received from Nature the imprescriptible right to worship the Almighty
according to the dictates of their conscience, and nobody may le