This was written at a time in US history when public anti-Semitism 
was rampant. The following was written as a rebuttal to the climate 
of the times.

WRITTEN BY: MARK TWAIN - HARPER'S, SEPTEMBER 1899

"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent 
of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust 
lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly 
be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of.

He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his 
commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the 
smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of 
great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, 
and obtuse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness 
of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world in 
all the ages, and has done it with his hands tied behind him. 
He could be vain of himself and be excused for it.

The Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Persians rose, filled the 
planet with sound and splendour, and faded to dream stuff and 
passed away. The Greeks and the Romans followed and made a vast 
noise and they are gone. Other peoples have sprung up and held 
their torch high for a time. But it burned out, and they sit in 
twilight now, or have vanished.

The Jew saw them all. Beat them all, and is now what he always was, 
exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of 
his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and 
aggressive mind.

All things are mortal but the Jew.
All other forces pass, but he remains.