Race, Nation, Religion the Jews

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. What is a nation, and what is a race? At first that would not, I dare say, seem to you a difficult question to answer, but the question is really less easy than it looks. I have the Century Dictionary by my side as I write; let us see what answer it gives. In a broad sense,' it says, a nation is a race of people: an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, and speaking the same language or cognate languages. But this is surely a strange use of the word; we surely mean by nation something less loose and vague, and something less synonymous with race. But the die tionary proceeds thus In a narrower sense, a nation is a political society composed of a sovereign or government and subjects or citizens, and constituting a political unit; an organized community, inhabitinga certain extent of territory, within which its sovereignty is exercised. This narrower sense is certainly much nearer to what in ordinary speech we mean by the word.

What is a nation, and what is a race? At first that would not, I dare say, seem to you a difficult question to answer, but the question is really less easy than it looks. I have the Century Dictionary by my side as I write; let us see what answer it gives. In a broad sense,' it says, a nation is a race of people: an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, and speaking the same language or cognate languages. But this is surely a strange use of the word; we surely mean by nation something less loose and vague, and something less synonymous with race. But the die tionary proceeds thus In a narrower sense, a nation is a political society composed of a sovereign or government and subjects or citizens, and constituting a political unit; an organized community, inhabitinga certain extent of territory, within which its sovereignty is exercised. This narrower sense is certainly much nearer to what in ordinary speech we mean by the word.