[ventana]

I would like to see the full text on that. But let's say he did say that, that statement would be wrong, but it doesn't nullify every other thing he said. Anymore then owning slaves nullified the validity of the constitution by writers who owned slaves. I think. I may be wrong, but that is what I think. V's wife.

[a history buff]

Here's the calling card at the library.

Author Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

Title The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc

Imprint Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin [1922}

I found the book at a college library because it was on the same rack as MacCaulay's history. I agree that a few wacky ideas don't have to disqualify the corpus of one's contribution to society, but, that said, this is a case of someone who is very critical of all non-Christians, to an extent deemed repugnant by today's standards. In his time his ideas were fairly commonplace. My worries are about using the ideas of someone who has generated repugnant ideas about one race to discredit another, very similar, one.