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One cell is equal to one centimetre divided by one hundred million parts.

Maulāna Sulaïmān Katani

A cell is a mass of cytoplasm that is bound externally by a cell membrane. Usually microscopic in size, cells are the smallest structural units of living matter and compose all living things. Most cells have one or more nuclei and other organelles that carry out a variety of tasks.

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“Those men who own the earth make the laws to protect what they have. They fix up a sort of fence or pen around what they have, and they fix the law so the fellow on the outside cannot get in. The laws are really organized for the protection of the men who rule the world. They were never organized or enforced to do justice. We have no system for doing justice, not the slightest in the world.”

-Clarence Darrow

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"Be kind, when kindness becomes part of something it beautifies it.
When kindness is taken away, it leaves it tarnished."

~ Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
 
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O, a quote from Dostoevsky. I have one too. (He is a little nervous, they send him various letters and make him angry.)

Long quote :oops: :)

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Suppose it is very difficult to know the forty centuries history of such a people as the Jews; But in the first case, I already know one thing: there are probably no other people in the whole world who complain so much about their fate, every minute, every step and every word they say, about their humiliation, about their suffering, about their martyrdom. Just think, they do not reign in Europe, they do not control the stock exchanges there, and hence the politics, and the internal affairs, and the morality of the states. Let the noble Goldstein die for the Slavic idea. But still, if the Jewish idea were not so strong in the world, perhaps the same "Slavic" (last year) issue would have been resolved long ago in favor of the Slavs, not the Turks. I am willing to believe that Lord Beaconsfield himself may have forgotten his origins, once, from the Spanish Jews (probably, however, he did not); But that he has "directed English Conservative policy" during the last year partly from the point of view of a Jew, this is beyond doubt. "Partially" cannot be avoided.

But let all this be unfounded on my part, a light tone and light words. I give in. Yet I cannot believe the cries of the Jews that they are so oppressed, tortured and humiliated. In my opinion, the Russian peasant, as well as the Russian common man in general, bears almost more burdens than the Jew. My correspondent writes to me in another letter:

First of all, it is necessary to grant them (the Jews) all civil rights (think that they have hitherto been deprived of the most fundamental right: the free choice of residence, from which follows many terrible restrictions for the entire Jewish mass), as well as to all other foreign nationalities in Russia, and only then to demand that they fulfill their duties to the state and to the native population.

But just think, Mr. Correspondent, who yourself writes to me in the same letter, on another page, that you "love and pity the working mass of the Russian people incomparably more than the Jewish masses" (which is too strong a word for a Jew) -- just think that when the Jew "suffered in the free choice of residence," then twenty-three million of the "Russian working masses" suffered from serfdom, Which, of course, was worse than "choosing a residence."

So, did the Jews feel sorry for them then? Don't think; in the western outskirts of Russia and in the south, they will answer this in detail. No, even then they shouted in the same way about rights that the Russian people themselves did not have, shouted and complained that they were humiliated and martyrs, and that when they were given more rights, "then ask us to fulfill our obligations to the state and the local population."

But then the liberator came and liberated the indigenous people, and what about who was the first to throw himself at him as a victim, who took advantage of his vices chiefly, who braided him with his eternal golden trade, who immediately replaced, wherever he could and in time, the abolished landlords, with the difference that the landlords, although they greatly exploited the people, nevertheless tried not to ruin their peasants, Perhaps, for himself, so as not to exhaust the labor force, and the Jew does not care about the exhaustion of the Russian strength, he took his own and left.

I know that the Jews, having read this, will immediately shout that this is not true, that this is slander, that I am lying, that I believe all this nonsense because I "do not know the forty-century history" of these pure angels, who are incomparably "morally purer not only than other nationalities, but also the Russian people whom they idolize" (in the words of the correspondent, see above).

But let them be morally purer than all the peoples in the world, and certainly the Russians, and yet I have just read in the March issue of the Vestnik Evropy the news that the Jews in America and the Southern States have already pounced en masse on the multi-million mass of liberated Negroes and have already taken them into their own hands, in their own way, by their well-known and eternal "gold trade" and by taking advantage of the inexperience and vices of the exploited tribe. Imagine, when I read this, I immediately remembered that five years ago I had thought of the same thing, namely, that the Negroes were now freed from their slaveholders, and they could not survive, because the Jews, of whom there are so many in the world, would pounce on this fresh victim.

I thought about it, and, I assure you, several times later during this period the thought occurred to me: "Why don't you hear anything about the Jews there, that they don't write in the newspapers, because these blacks are a treasure to the Jews, will they really let them through?" And about ten days ago I read in Novoye Vremya [New Time] (No 371) a most characteristic correspondence from Kovno: "They say that the Jews there attacked the local Lithuanian population to such an extent that they almost killed everyone with vodka, and only the priests saved the poor drunk, threatening them with the torments of hell and organizing temperance societies among them."

The enlightened correspondent, it is true, blushes very much for his population, which still believes in the priests and in the torments of hell, but he also reports that enlightened local economists have risen after the priests, have begun to establish village banks, precisely to save the people from the Jewish pawnbroker, and rural markets, so that the "poor working masses" can receive basic necessities at the present price, and not according to the one appointed by the Jew.

Well, I've read all this and I know that in a moment they will shout at me that all this proves nothing that it is because the Jews themselves are oppressed, they themselves are poor, and that all this is just a "struggle for existence", that only a fool cannot understand it, and if the Jews themselves were not so poor, But, on the contrary, If they were richer, then in an instant they would show themselves from the most human side, so the whole world will be surprised. But, of course, all these negroes and Lithuanians are even poorer than the Jews who squeeze the juice out of them, and yet they (read the correspondence) abhor the trade which the Jews are so fond of; Secondly, it is not difficult to be humane and moral when you yourself are fat and cheerful, and if this is a "struggle for existence", do not come close to me.

This, in my opinion, is not quite such an angelic trait, but thirdly, after all, I, of course, do not present these two reports from Newspaper Europe and New Time as such fundamental and all-decisive facts.

If you begin to write the history of this universal tribe, you can at once find a hundred thousand facts of the same and even greater importance, so that one or two facts will add nothing special to it, but what is curious is that as soon as you, whether in an argument or just in a moment of your own reflection, need information about a Jew and his deeds, Do not go to libraries to read, do not rummage through old books or your own old marks, do not work, do not search, do not strain, and without leaving your seat, without even getting up from your chair, only stretch out your hand to the first newspaper lying next to you and search on the second or third page: you will certainly find something about the Jews, And invariably what interests you is certainly the most characteristic and invariably the same thing — that is, all the same feats!

Why, you must admit it, it means something, it points to something, it reveals something to you, even though you are a complete ignoramus in the forty-century history of this tribe. Of course, I will be told that everyone is obsessed with hatred, and therefore everyone lies. Of course, it is very possible that every single one lies, but in this case another question immediately arises: if every single one is lying and is overwhelmed by such hatred, then where does this hatred come from, for this universal hatred means something, "after all, the word "all" means something!", as Belinsky once exclaimed.


"Free choice of residence!" But is the Russian "native" person really so completely free to choose his place of residence? Do not the old and undesirable restrictions on the complete freedom of choice of residence for the Russian commoner, to which the government has long drawn attention, still continue to this day, remaining from serfdom times?

As for the Jews, it is evident that their rights to choose their place of residence have been greatly extended in the last twenty years. At least, they appeared in Russia in places where they had not been seen before. But Jews still complain of hatred and oppression. Even if I am not firm in my knowledge of Jewish life, I already know one thing for sure and will argue with everyone, namely, that there is no prejudiced, a priori, stupid, religious hatred of the Jew in our common people, such as: "Judas, they say, sold Christ."

If you hear this from children or from drunks, then all our people look at the Jew, I repeat, without any prejudiced hatred. I've seen it for fifty years. I even happened to live with the people, in the same barracks, to sleep on the same bunks. There were a few Jews there, and no one despised them, no one expelled them, no one persecuted them. When they prayed (and the Jews pray with a shout, wearing a special dress), no one found it strange, did not interfere with them and did not laugh at them, which, by the way, should be expected from such a rude, according to your ideas, people as the Russians; on the contrary, looking at them, they said: "This is their faith, this is how they pray," and passed by with calmness and almost approval.

And so, it was these Jews who shunned the Russians in many respects, did not want to eat with them, looked down on them (and where is this? in prison!) and generally expressed disgust and squeamishness towards the Russians, towards the "indigenous" people. It is the same in soldiers' barracks, and everywhere throughout Russia: visit and ask whether a Jew is offended in the barracks as a Jew, as a Yid, for his faith, for his customs. They are not insulted anywhere and this is how it is with the whole people.

On the contrary, I assure you that both in the barracks and elsewhere the Russian commoner sees and understands too much (and the Jews themselves do not conceal it) that the Jew does not want to eat with him, disdains him, avoids him and protects himself from him as much as he can, and well, instead of being offended by this, the Russian commoner calmly and clearly says: "It is his faith that is it is he who does not eat and shuns because of his faith" (that is, not because he is evil), and, recognizing this supreme reason, from the bottom of his heart he excuses the Jew.


And yet sometimes a fantasy came into my head: what if it were not for the three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; And there would be 80 million Jews – well, what would the Russians turn into and how would they treat them? Would they have allowed them to be equal to them in rights? Would they be allowed to pray among them freely? Wouldn't they have been turned directly into slaves? What's worse, wouldn't they have skinned them completely? Would they not have beaten them to ashes, to the point of final extermination, as they did with foreign peoples in the old days, in their ancient history?

No, I assure you that in the Russian people there is no prejudiced hatred of the Jew, but there is, perhaps, a lack of sympathy for him, especially in some places, and even, perhaps, very strong. Oh, it is impossible without this, it exists, but it does not come from the fact that he is a Jew, not from tribal hatred, not from some religious hatred, but from other reasons, for which it is no longer the indigenous people who are to blame, but the Jew himself."

Writer's Diary/ 1877/ March/ Chapter Two/ II. Pro and contra



This is what Dostoevsky says. I can't argue with the spirits of dead geniuses.
 
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