Jewish Giftedness and World Redemption: The Calling of Israel

The Jews constitute but 1% [now less than 1/2 %] of the human race....peoples [Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman] have sprungup and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit intwilight now, or have vanished. All things are mortal but the Jew; all otherforces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality? Mark Twain, Concerning the Jews, Harper s Magazine, September, 1899.