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This will to live was the first thing that Judaism gave to…

Quote byHouston Stewart Chamberlain · 1855–1927

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899).

English (original)

This will to live was the first thing that Judaism gave to Christianity: hence that contradiction, which even today seems to many an inexplicable riddle, between a doctrine of inner conversion, toleration and mercifulness, and a religion of exclusive self-assertion and fanatical intolerance.

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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