Excerpt from The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations Page 1. The value of a name - The phenomenal success of the Rothschilds and their poor beginnings - Their reputation for unstinted benevolence - Persecutions to which the Jews have been subjected - The hatred of them still rampant in some countries - The spirit of intolerance dying out in England - What the world owes the J ews - Universal pre-eminence accorded to the works of their great lawyers and prophets Spinoza - Large number of Jews distinguished as musicians and composers, and likewise as dramatic and operatic artists Eminence of the Jews as mathematicians and astronomers The Jews in commerce and nuance - The Jews as lawyers and as politicians - Charges brought against the J ews - Misleading impressions regarding them - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the honest Jew - Unimpeachable lives and characters of the Rothschilds and other prominent Jewish families - The secret of Jewish success - Sir Thomas Gresham - Queen Elizabeth Jewish pride of race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.