You Gentiles
sense of the word: children of mixed Jewish-gentile percentage still carry the Jewish stigma. The child of a half-Jew and complete gentile is in better plight: and a Jewish great-grandfather is hardly any handicap at all. The third generation, as the saying is, produces the gentleman.
It needs at least these three generations of intermediary stage—probably more. It would be absurd to expect absorption in a single generation: it never happens. There is needed a transition period and it is this transition period which you gentiles will not tolerate. Even if you believe (as most of you do) that the best thing that could happen to the Jew would be his complete absorption by inter-marriage, you oppose, tacitly, but not the less obstinately, his steps in that direction. You want us to inter-marry—but you don't want to inter-marry. You want us to produce gentile offspring without having taken your sons and daughters as mates.
In other words, you want an end without permitting the means. The prospect of a
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