ABSTRACT
Every association of men has for its object the promotion of common aims. But the association having been formed, the idea of obligation at once arises. Common interests have common duties as their correlative. A common life implies common duties; and therefore every man is bound by special obligations to the State, which is the expression of the common life its most organised form. That duty is explicitly set forth in the Bible, and all the more impressively seeing that the State towards which it has to be performed is sometimes an alien and a hostile State. The modern Jew, then, who respects his neighbour's religion, and earnestly seeks after brotherly intercourse with him, is merely discharging a duty consecrated by the teaching and the usage of centuries. Patriotism is the supreme duty of the citizen, but our conception of patriotism must be based upon a reverence for righteousness.
