instrument for the culture and elevation of the masses, probably the most potent in existence ; a lever, all the more efficacious at that time as an instrument for the elevation of Jews, because it was the fashion for non-Jews to despise it, and, as far as possible, to ignore its existence.
And so I went on, always linking my work with whatever source of force I found most ignored, most despised, or most execrated by the party who seemed to be exerting the most influence at the time,—the old Magicians' Master Method for economising one's own vitality by utilising Nature's re-active energy,—until, in 1901, officials of the English government asked me why methods of study, useful for the training of electrical engineers, were in use abroad and unknown in England. The Magic Cycle was completed and the spell was at work.
A selection of my contributions to various Jewish weeklies has been published by Messrs. Daniel under the title "Logic Taught by Love." Non-Jew readers find the book difficult to understand, because of the many references to the phraseology and imagery of the Synagogue; and have asked me to translate it into a form more intelligible to the general public. But it seems simpler and better to give to the public the original work suppressed by Maurice's friend, as a fair sample of the kind of knowledge which, half a century ago, was being driven out of England in deference to the whims of an Ecclesiastical Trades Union.
We think that we have progressed since that day. Instead of not believing in ghosts and
