Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — TALENTS OF THE [ARTICLE]

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Famous in Finance, Philosophy, Med* {.clue, aridMualc. ~ Soneone has been at the pfilnd recent* Iy to make an analysis of tie characteristics of (more than thirty thousand prominent men of modern times with K special reference to the Jewish race. ‘The results are curious anj interesting. They bear testimony also to the Remarkable versatility and adaptability of the Jewish people and their tenacity of purpose, even under the most ad* verwj conditions. “ Although Moses, the greatestj^.lawgivers! gnd Joshua, one of the I '-most brilliant and successful generals, were of the Jewish race, in naodem tlmes the Jews are less distinguished than men of other creeds generally as statesmen and soldiers. They have no distinction whatever as agriculturists, engravers, sailors and explorers. Their greatest service to the world has beeuaecomplishedln capacity of actors, doctors, financiers, metaphysicians, musicians, poets and philosophers. In all these lines of human thought and endeavor they have contributed many illustrious, immortal names. Astronomical science has no brighter name upon its roll than Herschel, the Jew, and mathematics, boasts no greater service than that which it received at the haods-of Jacobi Cremona. In biology also the once despised Hebrew has made his mark. Bernstein. Re-' inak, Rosenthal and Valentine have done large service as physiologists; Cohnlieim, Hirsch, Liebreieh, Loinbroso and Troube as pathologists will, perhaps, be recognized, while F. Cohn . is, perhaps, the third greatest botanist In Germany to-day. But it is in the realm of music that the genius of the Jew has had its largest development and accomplished tlio most brilliant and original results. One has only tp think of the wonderful achievements of such masters of the art. divine as Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Rubinstein, to say nothing of Mo- : scheles and Haley, to realize how poor the world would be had not these men of the Jewish race lived and wrought as they did. Surely the mantle of David, the poet king of Israel and the great master of the sacred song, has fallen on not One, but many, oif hto: descendants in these later days.—Jacksonville Metropolis. ;