stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the jews to israel. in volume 2 of his "lectures" he told the jews, “you are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. be united. fulfill the dreams of your old poets and patriarchs. go back, go back to the land of abraham.” a sentiment popularized as "a land without a people for a people without a land." however, his son lothrop stoddard, who remained agnostic after his father's conversion, held antisemitic (and white supremacist) views.