Abstract

Anti-Semitism as a Fascist Weapon

In recent years Americans have tiptoed gingerly along the greatest abyss of history. Americans still stare down into it with mixed feelings of relief at their narrow escape and horror on seeing those who did not escape. Not since the fail of Constantinople in 1453 and the spread of Greek learning into the western world opened the door of modern history, indeed, not since the dawn of the Christian epoch brought the light of day to a brutal pagan world has humanity witnessed such a spectacular and disorderly retreat of the human spirit into the dark ages. In that long span of history, Americans had toiled tediously up out of the shadows of human nature into the sunlight and perspectives of that measure of civilization, which they have today. The fruits of those efforts are all about Americans in countless moral restraints and human practices which collectively form a solid bulwark of habit and conduct quite ample to frustrate, if not completely overwhelm, latent impulses toward primitive brutality.