Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1916 — Mystic and Moneymaker. [ARTICLE]

Mystic and Moneymaker.

Art is the encompassing of the ideal within the limits of the human faculties, and in this sense every Jew is an artist. It is his quality to discern unexpected possibilities in things—to bring out what is in them, whether the subject of his interest is a piece of music or a gold mine. That is the key to the paradox of the Jewish character and explains why he is at once a mystic and a moneymaker —a dreamer with an eye to the main chance.