The Maccabaean

gain qualitatively. As the choice of free men Zionism will be a nobler, healthier and more intensive movement than as an economic panacea for a people bound in chains of misfortune.

It has never been claimed that Zionism could solve the Jewish economic question. Economic questions which cannot be solved exist in the most powerful and wealthy of states. To base Zionism on persecution is totally to misunderstand and misinterpret the spirit of the movement.

One effect of the Revolution will probably be to diminish emigration from Russia, which was primarily economic in its origin. Thus the Revolution will cut off at its source that invigorating stream of immigration into the countries of Western Europe and America which has contributed so largely to keeping Judaism alive in those countries.

Assimilation amongst the Jews in the western Diaspora has reached serious proportions, and had these countries not been fed by the constant flow of Jewish emigrants from Russia, it is certain that their Judaism would have been so emasculated by its "liberal" progress as to be non-existent. Judaism in these countries was and is dependent on outside factors for its persistence. So far as the history of political emancipation of the Jews in these countries is concerned, it has meant a period of

hyphenation, in which the Jew tends to approach the predominant type of the country in which he lives. In Russia it may be assumed that a similar development will take place, and that many will attempt to eradicate their distinguishing characteristics and become "real" Russians, in the same way as Jews in England have sought to become Englishmen, Jews in France Frenchmen, and so on. If there were no corrective to this development we should then logically arrive in time at a point at which Jews would belong to every nation except the Jewish nation.

Zionism will provide the necessary corrective, will create that bond of unity which is lacking, and will be the common agreement to which Jews of all lands can appeal. Political emancipation concerns the Jews as individuals, whereas, Zionism is concerned with the Jews as a people, with their restoration to a national centre of their own, where Judaism as an influence in the civilization of the world may be preserved and where a free and liberal Jewish spirit can develop.

We have arrived at a supreme moment in the world's history. The map of the world is to be remade. Our demand is for a small country, no bigger than Wales, where we can create a recognized collective Jewish existence and through which we will once again belong to the fellowship of nations.

They tell us dreams are false.—But no,Dreams are the truth that cries for birth,The outcast lords of time that goTo seek a dwelling in the earth.

What dream is this that fills my night,That comes and goes with careless speed:A kingly form all clothed in whiteRiding upon an Arab steed!