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  THE AMERICAN JEW
  AS
  PATRIOT, SOLDIER AND CITIZEN.




[Illustration: STATUE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia.]




  THE
  AMERICAN JEW
  AS
  PATRIOT, SOLDIER AND CITIZEN

  BY
  SIMON WOLF

  EDITED BY
  LOUIS EDWARD LEVY

  PHILADELPHIA
  THE LEVYTYPE COMPANY
  PUBLISHERS

  NEW YORK--CHICAGO--WASHINGTON
  BRENTANO'S
  1895




  "And Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you
  free."--John, viii, 32.


  To All
  Who Love and Seek the Truth
  This Work is Dedicated
  BY
  The Author.




EDITOR'S PREFACE.


It were an error to suppose that prejudice is always the offspring of
ignorance, inasmuch as the reverse is very frequently true. Not seldom
is ignorance the result of prejudice, through a willful refusal to
recognize such facts as run counter to the latter. A more accurate
simile would, therefore, be the likening of prejudice and ignorance to
twins, of whom either may be the precursor of the other, and either
one the stronger of the two. The prejudices which follow ordinary
ignorance give way readily before increasing knowledge of the truth,
but where prejudice is the elder of the twin vices, it is usually the
most obstinate as well. "None so blind as those who will not see" is an
