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'Merely as a centre of Cultur. Merely as a University where Herbert Spencer may be studied in the tongue of the Psalmist. All the rest is bourgeois Zionism. Political Zionism? Economic Zionism? Pah! Mere tawdry imitations of heathen politics! 'Then you agree with the Chovevi Zionists! 'Not at all. Zion is less a place than a state of mind.
The tea-merchant, who was a small stout man, with a black cap of dubious cut, protested vehemently against such materialistic measures. Let them put their trust in Cultur! To talk Hebrew therein lay Israel's real salvation. Let little children once again lisp in the language of Isaiah and Hosea that was true Zionism. 'Then don't you want the Holy Land? asked the astonished David.
If the Roman religion could be revived these were the proper means to do it. But the religion of the future was not to be prepared in this way. The sections on religion in Mommsen's History of Rome. Ramsay's Roman Antiquities. Wissowa, Religion und Cultur der Römer. Holwerda, in De la Saussaye. For the period of the Empire, Boissier's La Religion Romaine.
See, however, what is said about the mountain villages of Norcia being good for incantations. That district in Roman times was famous for such superstitions. Burckhardt, Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien, pp. 427-428, gives curious information on this topic. Lib. i. cap. 76. Lib. i. cap. 88. "That mad melancholy philosopher Lorenzino." Cf. i. 80 and 81.
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