These 'Protocols' at a
first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to
call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed
with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in
commonplaces. A proud, deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time
secretly growing,--and what is more frightful than all,--a religious
rage boils between the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the
overfilled vessel of violence and vengeance, already approaching
complete triumph.
"It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript
does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols of a
meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided into
parts which are not even always logically connected: the impression
remains that this is a fragment of something much more significant,
the beginning of which has been lost. The origin of the manuscript,
as given by us above, furnishes sufficient explanation of this.
* * * * *
"We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal
character of the document presented. But if it were possible to
demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony of
trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil the faces of
those who are at the head of the world conspiracy and who hold its
bloody strings in their hands, then the very 'mystery of
lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain intact
until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.
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