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education & an indispensible pact of every the Jew's. If
the higher education can do nothing more for the Jew than
make him change his name it is truely a sorry result.
And to say that one religion is as good as another
because each contains in its essence the elements of
truth is to my in my opinion the statement of a
coward who lacks the manhood to stand by his
colors. We like men of culture, who does not
but let us not forget that one many be a veritable
master of all the refined conventionalities of better
society. he may be faultless in attire & the
graceful in manner, & speech -- a perfect
Chesterfield & yet be a snob of the worst kind
& a scoundrel at heart. Hence we need men
of sound moral & religious convictions the acquisition
of which will turn our academic knowledge to the
highest value & make one's education comparatively almost
complete. Let us be liberal in our opinions by
all means but let us not align ourselves to the liberalism
of those men who would relegate remove the sacred [cursive Hebrew] the sacred scroll of the Law