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97 Cf. MONPIN, 1. c. footnote 65, with ref. to DIODOROS SICULUS: "Baby-killing mothers were penalized by keeping the baby's cadaver in their arms for three full days under the surveillance of a public guard." 98 GUTTMACHER, A. F. (1933): Life in the Making. N. Y . 17. Cf. also MILLAR, 1. c. footnote 65. One prescription (from ca. 1850 B. C.) offers a pessary made from crocodile dung and honey. 99 DARLINGTON C. D. (1969): The Evolution of Man and Society. N. Y. 100 SALLUSTIUS, C: De bello Jugurthino, 19. 101 PIETSCHMANN, R. (1899): DiePhoenizier, Berlin, p. 237. 102 The ODYSSEY mentions them. See also WARMINGTON, B. H. (1960): Carthage, London, 39. 103 Every year up to 500 first-born sons of the foremost Punic families were incinerated. The Carthaginians kept up the custom. The leading families were bound to furnish the sacrifice as representatives of the commonwealth. Male children were selected by lot, but children were sometimes exchanged with children of slaves in order to be saved. The sanctuary of Tanit contained thousands of urns with burnt bones of children, aged one month to four years, with stelae of various forms, inscribed MLK( =sacrificial offering; not Moloch!). Also described in the Salammbo of G. Flaubert. Such cemeteries were also found in an area of Punic conquest in Sardinia (Cf. WEYŁ, N. (1968): Some possible genetic implications of Carthagianian child sacrifice. Perspectives of Biological Medicine, 12; 69. —For a similar custom of the ancient Hebrews see also the "topheth" near Jerusalem (JEREMIAH, 7:31-33; also 19:5-6; also 2 KINGS, 23-10). 104 See WEYŁ, 1. c. footnote above, describing the dysgenic implications of the child sacrifice. 105 See REIBMAYR, 1. c. footn. 56, 175.—See also PLOETZ, A. (1895): Die Tüchtigkeit unserer Rasse und der Schutz der Schwachen; ein Versuch über Rassenhygiene, etc., 137 etc., Berl. He considers that, together with the West Aryans, the Jews are the highest developed cultural race: "Die Juden scheinen also mehr Arier als Nichtarier sein." It is a race excellent for racial mixing, for increasing racial fitness and good variations.

—Inbreeding was very strict in ancient Judea, which made it almost impossible for aliens to live in Jerusalem in larger numbers. Roman conquerors also had the worst experience in this regard (REIBMAYR, 1. c. 23. in his footnote.) 106 There was some mixture. Joseph himself took Asenath, the daughter of an Egyptian priest, and had two sons from her (cf. GENESIS 41:50-51), Ephraim and Manasseh whose tribes were considered mixed blood. But MOSES was born from an inbred tribe (EXODUS 2:1,2). David and Solomon took concubines of all races (Cf. 1 KINGS 11:5-9). When Ezra heard that „we have committed an offence against our God in marrying foreign wives, daughters of the foreign population" (EZRA, 10:2), he instituted an inquiriy into all the marriages with foreign women. All men dismissed them together with their children (EZRA 10:44). See also NEHEMIAH 10-29-30.—But the most grandioųs flower of the Jewish spirit was religion and Christianity which Judaism produced first after its mixture with Greek and Roman blood. 107 Cf. GANZFRIED, Rabbi S. (1963): Code of Jewish Laws (Kitzur Sĥų ĥan Aruh), N. Y— B. FELSENTHAL, a rabbi, wrote in the Jewish weekly "Jeshurun": "What are we? Are we Jews still? The Jew is born as Jew, and remains, as long as he lives, a Jew.

.. He enters the community of Israel in the hour of his birth and by his birth. Hence, the being of a Jew is also not just a religion. The being of a Jew is first all a tribe, and Jewishness is properly speaking the sum of all the ethnic psychological characteristics of this tribe" ("Was sind wir? Sind wir noch Juden? Der Jude wird als Jude geboren und bleibt solange er lebt, ein Jude.

.. Sein Eintritt in die Gemeinschaft Israels erfolgt in der Stunde seiner Geburt, und durch seine Geburt. Es ist daher auch die Judenheit nicht bloss eine Religion. Die Jųđenĥe¿ is in erster Linie ein Stamm und das Judenthum ist eigentlich die Summe aller volkspsychologischen Eigenschaften dieses Stammes." (quoted by REIBMAYR, 1. c., footn. 56, 207). 108 GILL Ņ, J. L. et al (1943): Social Problems, 3. ed. N. Y. 68. "The Jewish culture resists assimilation probably more than does the culture of other people, and often the Jews are disdainfully inconsiderate of the culture of the other people with whom they are destined to live and trade. This trait caused the ancient Jews no end of trouble during Old Testament times, and the modern — »geñ ile« seems hardly less resentful."—Some time or other the Jews have been evicted from Spain, Poland, Germany, Russia, England, France. See also ARON R. (1969): De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews, New York. 109 PEZOL (1932): Moses als Eugeniker. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 58: 1370. 53