About the Jews, for instance, listen to the following: I have never yet met a German who was favourably inclined to the Jews; and however decided the repudiation of actual anti Semitism may be on the part of all prudent and political men, this prudence and policy is not perhaps directed against the nature of the sentiment itself, but only against its dangerous excess, and especially against the distasteful and infamous expression of this excess of sentiment; on this point we must not deceive ourselves.