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You Gentiles By Maurice Samuel Author of The Outside,” "Whatever Gots New York Contents ‘The Question Sport Gods Dupe Loyalty Discipline ‘The Reckoning But a8 Moderns Wo, the Destroyers ‘The Games of Science ‘The Masses : Solution and Distcution ‘The Mechanism of Dissolution Is Thee Any Hope? A Last Word 8 8 o 107 24 1S 148 156 ur 288 196 r ‘The Question 1 ‘Tunse last ten years and more I have been asking myself, with increasing urgency, a number of questions: 1s there any special significance in the dis- tinction I have so long cherished—the dis- tinction of “Jew-gentile"—not to be found in the class of distinctions implied in “American-Foreigner” or “Englishman-For- cigner”? Is there, between us Jews and you gentile, that is between the Jew on the one hand and the Englishman, the Frenchman, the American on the other hand, that which transcends all the differences which exist among yourselves, so that, in relation to us, you are gentiles first, and afterwards (and without particular relevance in this connec. tion) Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans? 7

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