In his novel Coningsby (London, 1844),
Disraeli drew a picture form the life of the Jews ruling the
world from behind the thrones as graphic as anything in the
Protocols of Nilus. Many believe, and it has been proved to
most, Coningsby was a plagiarism of a Byzantine novel of the
XVIIth century. The passage in which Rothschild (Sidonia)
describes this is as follows: "If I followed my own impulse,
I would remain here," said Sidonia. "Can anything be more
absurd than that a nation should apply to an individual to
maintain its credit, and with its credit, its existence as
an empire and its comfort as a people; and that individual
one to whom its laws deny the proudest rights of
citizenship, the privilege of sitting in its senate and of
holding land; for though I have been rash enough to buy
several estates, my own opinion is that by the existing law
of England, an Englishman of Jewish faith cannot possess the
soil.'
'But surely it would be easy to repeal a law so
illiberal.'
'Oh! as for illiberality, I have no objection to it if
it be an element of power. Eschew political sentimentality.
What I contend is that if you permit men to accumulate
property, and they use that permission to a great extent,
power is inseparable from that property, and it is in the
last degree impolitic to make it in the interest of any
powerful class to oppose the institutions under which they
live. The Jews, for example, independent of the capital
qualities for citizenship which they possess in their
industry, temperance, and energy and vivacity of mind, are a
race essentially monarchical, deeply religious and shrinking
themselves from converts as from a calamity, are ever
anxious to see the religious systems of the countries in
which they live, flourish; yet since your society has become
agitated in England and powerful combinations menace your
institutions, you find the once loyal Jew invariably arrayed
in the same ranks as the leveller and the latitudinarian,
and prepared to support rather than tamely continue under a
system which seeks to degrade him. The Tories lose an
important election at a critical moment; 'Its the Jews who
come forward to vote against them.
The Church is alarmed at the scheme of a
latitudinarian university, and learns with relief that funds
are not forthcoming for its establishment; a Jew immediately
advances and endows it. Yet the Jews, Coningsby, are
essentially Tories. Toryism indeed is but copied from the
mighty prototype which has fashioned Europe. And every
generation they must become more powerful and more dangerous
to the society which is hostile to them. Do you think that
the quiet humdrum persecution of a decorous representative
of an English university can crush those who have
successively baffled the Pharaos, Nebuchadnezzar, Rome, and
the feudal ages?
The fact is you cannot destroy a pure race of White
organization [Here is the secret, and a Rothschild is
telling us why the Jews are trying to destroy the White
Race. It is because the Jews know, if the race is kept pure,
it cannot be destroyed; because it will be protected by
Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ!]. It is a
physiological fact; a simple law of nature, which has
baffled Egyptian and Assyrian kings, Roman emperors, and
Christian inquisitors. No penal laws, no physical tortures,
can effect that a superior race should be absorbed in an
inferior, or be destroyed by it. The mixed persecuting races
disappear, the pure persecuted race remains. And at this
moment in spite of centuries, or tens of centuries, of
degradation, the Jewish mind exercises a vast influence on
the affairs of Europe. I speak of their laws, which you
still obey; of their literature, with which your minds are
saturated; but of the living Jewish intellect.
You never observe a great intellectual movement in
Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The
first Jesuits were Jews; that mysterious Russian diplomacy
which so alarms Western Europe is organized and principally
carried on by Jews; that mighty revolution (of 1848) which
will be in fact [followed] by a second an greater
Reformation, and of which so little is as yet known in
England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews,
who almost monopolize the professorial chairs of Germany.
Neander the founder of Spiritual Christianity, and who is
Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, is
a Jew. Benary, equally famous and in the same university, is
a Jew. Wehl, the Arabic Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew.
Years ago, when I was in Palestine, I met a German student
who was accumulating materials for the history of
Christianity and studying the genius of the place; a modest
and learned man. It was Wehl; then unknown, since become the
first Arabic scholar of the day, and the author of the life
of Mohamet. But for the German professors of this race,
their name is legion. I think there are more than ten at
Berlin alone.
I told you just now that I was going up to town
tomorrow, because I always made it a rule to interpose when
affairs of state were on the carpet. Otherwise, I never
interfere. I hear of peace and war in the newspapers, but I
am never alarmed, except when I am informed that the
sovereigns want treasure; then I know that monarchs are
serious. A few years back we were applied to by Russia. Now
there has been no friendship between the Court of St.
Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections which
have generally supplied it; and our representations in favor
of the Polish Jews, a numerous race, but the most suffering
and degraded of all the tribes, have not been very agreeable
to the Czar. However circumstances drew to an approximation
between the Romanoffs and the Sidonias. I resolved to go
myself to St. Petersburg. I had on my arrival an interview
with the Russian Minister of Finance, Count Cancrin; I
beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew. The loan was connected
with the affairs of Spain; I resolved on repairing to Spain
from Russia. I travelled without intermission. I had an
audience immediately on my arrival with the Spanish minister
Senior Mendizabel; I behold one like myself, the some of
Nuevo Christiano, a Jew of Aragon. In consequence of what
transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult
the President of the French Council; I beheld the son of a
French Jew, a hero, an imperial marshal and very properly
so, for who should be military heroes if not those of the
Jewish faith.'
'And is Soult a Jew?' 'Yes, and others of the French
marshals, and the most famous Massna, for example; his real
name was Mannasheh: but to my anecdote. The consequence of
our consultations was that some northern power should be
applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity. We fixed on
Prussia, and the President of the Council made an
application to the Prussian minister, who attended a few
days after our conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet,
and I beheld a Prussian Jew. So you see, my dear Coningsby,
that the world is governed by very different personages from
what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.'"
(pp. 249-252)