Vitality of the Jewish Race—Its Source
Dr. Ernest Hart, in his Biostatics, shows that the Jews in general live longer than the Christians and the Turks. Their boys, he tells us, far outnumber their girls; they are exempt from epidemic diseases, and they lose fewer children than the Christians and Mussulmans. Dr. Sallard, in his work on pauperism in London, says that the Jews lose only ten per cent of their children, compared with a loss of seventeen per cent among the Christians. The average life of a Christian in London, he says, is thirty-seven years, while that of a Jew is forty-nine years. The average of life in France, according to the same authority, is thirty-seven years; the average among the Jews is forty-eight years. In an equal number of men, twenty-seven Jews attain the age of seventy years, while only thirteen Christians reach the same age. There are few suicides among the Jews. There is hardly ever a Jewish assassin. Very few Jews abandon themselves to drunkenness. For this vitality the Jews are undoubtedly indebted to the customs instituted by the so-called Mosaic laws. After these statutes of health were delivered to them by the hand of Moses, the promise was made, “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt . . . keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” Although of recent years they have departed greatly from these statutes, they are still reaping the results of their ancestors’ sowing.—Australasian Good Health.