Addressing the Australasian Science Congress last night on the topic “Poison in History,” the noted author H.G. Wells protested against nationalistic teaching of history and denounced Jewish “separatism” and the “chosen people myth.”
“I can imagine,” he said, “no more dreadful position than the world today for the intelligent Jews with a sense of reality. There is no use in claiming to be a citizen of the world, because the Gentiles will not agree. Until the clearing up of history teaching in both Christian and Jewish education and until the Jew will cease feeling distinctively a Jew and become a cosmopolitan, the intellectual processes of mankind will be enfeebled and innumerable lives spoiled.”
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