,,the ,,character ,,of ,,the ,,jew      
,,books  ,being1 ,a ,defence of ,the    
,natural ,innocence of ,man1 ,against   
,kings and ,priests or ,tyrants and     
,impostors  ,,by ,,philanthropos        
,london3  ,,printed ,,and ,,published   
,,by ,r4 ,,carlile1 #ee1 ,,fleet        
,,street4  #ahba4  ,price ,twopence4    
,,the ,,character ,,of ,,the ,,jew      
,,books  ,justice is due to all men2 it 
is a gem that sheds a brilliant radiance
 upon the tyrant and the slave1 upon the
 rich and the poor2 ,justice is in the  
moral world what the sun is in the      
physical1 one illuminates the           
intellectual1 the other the terrestrial 
system4 ,by the standard of justice     
measure the rulers of the earth2 try    
their actions1 calculate their          
characters1 weigh their governments in  
the balance of justice2 when analyzed by
 this test and found unalloyed1 grant   
unmeasured praise2 if deficient1 if     
tyranny1 villainy1 bigotry and cruelty  
preponderate1 condemn them1 and consign 

them to the execration of all mankind4  
,notwithstanding the exertions of       
,philosophy1 and the undaunted          
perseverance of a few men1 barbarity1   
cupidity and bigotry1 generally prevail2
 the numerous devotees1 the thronged    
congregation of rogues1 slaves1 and     
fools at the shrine of avarice1 too     
frequently paralyze the efforts of      
liberal men2 mean1 pitiful1 despicable  
traffic1 has introduced mercantile      
ideas1 and consequently this nation of  
hucksters estimates merit in money4 ,the
 rich assume to be privileged1 and      
unceasingly condemn and revile the      
industrious poor1 as being vicious1     
immeasurably criminal1 and abandoned to 
every moral offence3 regardless of      
themselves1 their families1 their       
society1 and their souls2 let us enquire
 if those charges are just1 if the poor 
are degenerated1 if they have abandoned 
themselves to contempt1 to degradation1 
to confinement1 and to death2 let us    
endeavour to ascertain if the laws of   

nature are changed1 let its endeavour to
 ascertain if the precepts of reason are
 revoked1 let us endeavour to ascertain 
if death is preferred to life4 ,the poor
 are the most numerous1 the most        
industrious1 and the most useful part of
 society2 should this portion1 this     
staple part1 this lever of the nation be
 so deserving of contempt1 of           
execration1 and of condemnation1 as some
 puny-minded1 rickety-headed fools would
 have us believe1 much might be feared  
for the continued indissolubility of the
 nation2 such as have monopolized the   
labour of the poor1 and enjoy the rank  
of the privileged rich1 incessantly     
insist that severe laws1 vindictive     
tortures1 and daily sanguinary          
executions would insure tranquility     
endangered1 preserve religion scoffed1  
suppress blasphemy encouraged1          
strengthen monarchies loathed1 despised1
 scorned1 hated and execrated4 ,the     
passions of distrust1 revenge1 fear1    
hatred1 malice and cruelty distract the 

rich1 that thrive by treachery1         
hypocrisy1 tyranny and rapacity2        
conscious of turpitude1 stung by        
remorse1 alarmed for the safety of      
ill-gotten gains1 the robbers and       
impostors are afraid the people will    
claim a restitution of rights and       
property4  ,in investigating the origin 
of crime perhaps it will appear that the
 robbery and hypocrisy of ,king1 and    
,priests1 and ,peers1 have been the     
exciting cause1 the immoderate agents1  
the operative principle1 that called    
into action the criminal intention      
imputed to the poor2 if such is proved1 
could any thing be more cruel1 more     
shocking1 more outrageous of common     
decency1 than for the rich and          
privileged robbers1 usurpers and        
impostors1 to accuse the people of      
crimes they have been parties to1 that  
they have promoted by rapine1 encouraged
 by example2 crimes that they may in    
effect have committed1 for ,kings and   
,peers and ,priests unblushingly        

practise trades of fraud1 imposition1   
and rapine1 their titles admit their    
separation from men2 experience proves  
they have inclination and capacity for  
any degree of villainy1 the worst1 the  
vilest1 and the most detestable of men  
can invent2 no disgrace can move1 no    
contempt can stagger1 no scorn can lower
 such as pollute the sanctuaries of the 
,church and ,throne1 as certain places  
are called4  ,survey man from his       
origin1 from his birth1 from his        
infancy1 he enters the word without     
reflection1 without will1 without ideas2
 his mind can be formed1 it can be      
moulded1 it can be directed at pleasure2
 his ideas1 his expressions1 his        
actions1 his life1 are the result of    
his1 education2 his infancy1            
adolescence1 his manhood1 and his old   
age1 are the consequence of his         
instruction2 without internal or innate 
idea1 without any indigenous or         
spontaneous mind he was nothing but from
 without3 he has no ideas1 no           

conceptions1 but such as result from    
external impressions2 if deficient      
organization has deprived him of sight1 
he knows nothing of colours2 of hearing1
 nothing of sounds2 of both1 he is an   
idiot4  ,if a male child is shut up in a
 dungeon and fed through a chink1 from  
twelve months old1 he would know nothing
 beyond his cell1 nothing further than  
its walls2 he would know nothing of     
,kings1 or ,priests1 or ,peers1 or      
prayers1 or tithes1 or taxes1 or        
blasphemy2 he would know nothing beyond 
softness and hardness1 roughness and    
smoothness1 heat and cold2 he would know
 nothing beyond experience1 nothing but 
by examination1 and could have no       
conception of any thing beyond his      
hearing1 seeing1 touching1 tasting and  
smelling2 he would only have conception 
of such things as would be produced by a
 combination of his few ideas2 even the 
man in the world without information    
knows nothing about the superstition of 
,mahomet1 of ,zoroaster1 of ,brahma1 and

 an ,old ,jew2 the child in the dungeon 
would know nothing of the cruelty of    
,jew ,moses1 the licentious ferocity of 
,david1 or the amiable gallantry of     
,solomon2 he would know nothing about   
the incest1 the polygamy and murder of  
the ,jew fellows1 he would knew nothing 
beyond simple sensations2 let the       
experiment be continued1 let the subject
 be placed in another situation1 let him
 be taken at ten years of age from his  
dungeon and placed in a disused cell    
unfrequented by any person but his      
keeper1 his instructor1 his director1 a 
monk and a eunuch2 let his keeper be    
directed to teach him nothing but the   
,jew ,books1 let all his information1   
let all his ideas1 let all his          
impressions be from those famous books  
of law1 of morality1 and of religion2 he
 will be taught that incest1 adultery1  
fornication1 hypocrisy1 drunkenness1    
perjury1 indecent exposure of women1    
rapine1 and assassinations1 are acts of 
religion1 inculcated1 enforced1         

patronized and practised1 by ,jew ,kings
 and ,jew ,prophets1 the chosen people  
of ,god2 the subject could think of     
nothing but what resulted from his      
education1 nothing but what was         
consistent with his theory2 he could not
 speak of colours never seen1 describe  
the people never known1 prefer nations  
never heard of4 ,arrived under those    
exclusive impressions at puberty1 sexual
 organization would be developed1 a new 
ardour1 a new stimulus1 a new           
inclination would act4 ,his mind would  
be filled with assassinations1 with     
butcheries1 with seductions and with    
debaucheries2 now prepared1 now         
surcharged with religious precepts1 let 
him enter the world2 his mind1 his      
impressions1 his actions would be formed
 upon the most sacred models1 such as   
,moses1 ,david and ,solomon2 he would be
 religiously prepossessed in favour of  
fraud1 perjury1 hypocrisy1 incest1 lust1
 perfidy and homicide2 impressed with   
experience1 impregnated with religion1  

with ,jew ,morality and sacred          
gibberish1 he would act according to his
 experience1 to his education1 to his   
religion1 and to his ,god2 now set at   
liberty1 impelled by his passions1      
irritated by opposition to his lust1 his
 avarice1 or his petulancy1 he would1   
acting consistently and religiously1    
commit a rape1 a robbery1 or a murder1  
and offend against human laws or the    
laws of reason1 and not those of        
religion2 it would avail nothing even   
among ,kings1 ,priests and ,peers1 to   
plead the injunctions1 the precepts1 the
 examples1 and the dignity of ,moses1 of
 ,abraham1 of ,lot1 of ,isaac1 of       
,david1 or of ,solomon2 suppose he is   
under sentence of death1 who brought him
 into that situation8 ,is he to blame1  
is he the architect of his case1 is he  
the cause of his fate1 is he the author 
of his misfortunes1 is human nature to  
be blotted by such affairs1 is he to be 
censured1 execrated1 and despised8 ,oh  
no6 he is the victim of iniquity1 the   

martyr of wrong impressions1 of wrong   
education and of bigotry1 he acted      
according to his education1 to his      
religion and to his experience2         
instruction in falsehood1 in error1 and 
in injustice has been the cause1 and the
 blame could only be annexed to the     
authors of fallacious principles1       
interested bigots1 and venal hypocrites4
 ,any one instructed to follow          
practically the horrid dogmas set forth 
in the ,jew ,books would soon reach the 
gallows1 would be soon covered with     
crimes1 would be soon consigned to      
infamy1 and the dignity of human nature 
would be traduced1 would be vilified1   
would be denounced by every silly fool1 
every fanatical quack1 every ignorant   
pretender to legislation1 and every     
,arch-hypocrite would call aloud for    
vengeance upon the seduced4  ,man knows 
nothing of his infancy1 he knows nothing
 but what he is taught1 of the          
combination of ideas he has imbibed1    
consequently such as teach are          

answerable for the crimes1 when the     
principles of education are false1 and  
such are ,kings1 ,priests and           
,legislators4  ,impostors unnecessarily 
make1 religion an important feature in  
men's education1 the people are obliged 
to hear1 to read1 told to reflect upon  
some ignorant1 illiterate1 confused1 and
 cabalistical ,jew ,books991 as these   
books contain false1 cruel2 lying1      
bloody and obscene stories1 and hold up1
 as religious and moral1 most indecent  
examples of lechery and murder1 so they 
are very improper1 very dangerous books 
to put into the hands of the uneducated 
and of children4 ,the ,jew ,books will  
debauch the wife1 seduce the maid1      
brutalize and mislead the son2 the      
beastly maxims they inculcate1 have been
 protected by the superstitious         
ignorance1 and unreflecting barbarity of
 former venal bigoted ,parliaments1     
whose ignorance would now disgrace the  
awl1 or the spade2 the intelligence of  
the age1 however deficient1 scorns the  

,gothic superstition of our forefathers2
 the hypocrites endeavour to enforce the
 jargon by the perversion of law1 by the
 halter1 by the torch1 and by the sword2
 the intellectual dwarfs are laughed at 
when they call for everlasting wrath1   
and vow eternal perdition2 anathemas1   
eliminations1 and maledictions are      
ridiculed1 as well as the rogue or fool 
that raves in the pulpit for his bread2 
where reason has not spread her rubies1 
false doctrines are dangerous2 impressed
 upon vacant minds with such terrific   
emphasis and sordid assiduity1 the youth
 and unsuspecting are corrupted2 false  
doctrines are instilled into vacant     
minds1 which are the precursors of      
crime4 ,eclat is given to the cruelties1
 of ,moses1 the lewd butcheries of      
,david1 and the amours of ,solomon2 the 
,jew ,books say1 ,god approves such     
acts1 and such heroes are said to be men
 after ,god's own heart3 the statutes1  
blasphemously of course1 proscribe such 
royal adventures4 ,either the statutes1 

are irreverend and impious1 or the ,jew 
,book is irreverend2 law1 religion1     
reason1 and the ,bible are the opposites
 of each other1 so that the supporters  
of what is now called law1 are the      
destroyers of the ,jew ,books2 the      
destroyers of the ,jew ,books are       
statute lawyers1 or blasphemers1 as     
reasoners are termed in ant phraseology4
 ,rare inconsistency6  99 ,sometimes    
called ,bibles and ,testaments4  ,man is
 the creature of the instruction        
received2 intellectual impressions form 
his motives of action1 he is            
necessitated to direct his life         
according to those impressions2 the mind
 is moulded like clay by the potter1    
carved like marble by the sculptor2 as  
the ,jew ,books contain the religion and
 morals of children1 and as they are    
cruel1 wicked1 and vindictive1 so       
children have criminal propensities     
excited by their existence2 first       
impressions are adulterated1 early      
habits are poisoned1 and future life    

impregnated with villainy4  ,so far from
 criminality being occasioned by neglect
 of ,bible reading1 as the ignorant1    
sordid hypocrite pretends1 if it was    
more read1 and education less mixed1 men
 would be more debased1 more perfidious1
 and more sanguinary4 ,it is a matter of
 fact1 it is known by experience1 that  
since ,bible ,societies have been       
instituted1 and ,bible circulation      
widened1 crimes have increased2 the     
people have been more cruel1 more       
brutal1 more sanguinary1 and more       
vindictive2 the human mind has been     
poisoned1 all the feelings of           
philanthropy have been blighted2 if such
 gibberish should extend1 the           
intelligence of the human mind will     
retrograde1 and its element1 a reign of 
,gothic ignorance predominate1 omit the 
,bible part of education1 and there will
 be fewer prostitutes1 fewer debauchees1
 fewer perjurers1 fewer tyrants1 and    
fewer murderers2 it is this part of     
education that pollutes and contaminates

 the essence of charity1 and mildews all
 the flowers of intellectual            
cultivation2 this is the source of the  
present barbarous schemes of government1
 idolized by rogues1 and allowed by     
fools2 the ,jew ,books are the prolific 
origin of the cruelty1 the treachery1   
the avarice1 and bloody-mindedness of   
,kings1 ,peers and ,priests1 and all the
 coterie of impostors2 they collect1    
they coalesce1 they conspire to mislead1
 to dupe1 to rule1 to rob and degrade an
 unsuspecting and innocent people2 a    
spontaneous course1 a common object1 a  
fellow feeling1 bind together the       
plunderers and oppressors of mankind4   
,if the people were instructed in       
morality1 in justice1 and in equity1    
they would see the robbery1 the         
oppression1 the intolerance1 and        
villainy of ,kings1 ,priests and ,peers2
 if intelligence lead the people to see 
injustice1 a spontaneous breath would   
remove it1 and regal and sacked         
impostors cease to oppress2 morality and

 justice should be the fundamental      
principles of education1 then would men 
annihilate the baneful despotisms of    
,kings1 and ,priests2 they would no     
longer support1 no longer vindicate1 no 
longer permit to exist1 the canting     
slothful hypocrisy of voracious         
privileged impostors2 such villains     
devour the produce of other men's toil1 
laugh at what themselves profess1       
without care1 except to propagate and to
 continue1 the simplicity1 the          
ignorance1 credulity and superstition1  
of a devoted1 a plundered and           
inoffensive people2 how can men listen  
to the precepts1 or be persuaded by1 the
 example of impostors1 who spend their  
lives in licentiousness1 in debauchery1 
in fornication1 in drunkenness1 and in  
sacred swindling8 ,if men follow the    
example of impostors1 abounding in      
nothing but infamy1 they cease to have  
claims as citizens upon society1 they   
forfeit every claim to credit1 to       
justice1 and the laws2 they are the     

pests1 the terror1 and the disgrace of  
each other4 ,the impostors demand the   
people to pay attention to the ,jew     
,books1 because the ,jew ,books         
recommend tribute and tithes2 this code 
of the hypocrites is calculated to      
advance the intolerance of despots1 and 
rapacity of priests2 if the people      
followed some ,scripture examples1 and  
adopted as perfection the models        
preached up by the priests1 they would  
be daily conspiring against ,kings or   
tyrants1 slaying their brothers1        
sleeping with their fathers' wives1     
debauching their sisters and daughters8 
in short1 there would1 be nothing but   
adultery1 licentiousness1 perjury1      
conspiracy1 cruelty1 perfidy1 and       
murder2 all those crimes would be the   
consequence of adhesion to the ,jew     
,books2 yet if the people do act like   
,jew-,book heroes1 if they do commit any
 one crime1 if either avarice or        
delusion excite to violence1 they are   
accused of not having the fear of ,god  

before their eyes1 of not having        
attended to the tithe-catching advice of
 ,priests1 and their books2 but of being
 actuated by irreligious1 profane1      
blasphemous1 and diabolical motives2 the
 dogmas of ,priests and the ,laws       
constantly dash1 and while reason       
suffers the tithe-eating corporation to 
exist1 legislation must be necessarily  
imperfect2 it is impossible for the     
people to follow the law and the ,bible2
 notwithstanding the suspicion of the   
,priests1 the laws will act in          
contradiction to the ,bible4  ,men are  
the creatures of education1 they act    
consistently with what they are taught2 
impostors and fools promulgating false  
principles are amenable to reason1 and  
they should be to laws made by the whole
 of the people2 men are criminal in     
consequence of a fallacious education   
adopted by regal and religious          
impostors1 with a view of reaping other 
meu's harvests2 the object is firstly1  
to debase1 to enslave1 to degrade the   

mind1 and secondly1 to plunder the      
victim2 such scoundrels constantly      
preach up the deficiency of human       
nature1 that more authority may be      
granted to those earthly saviours2 a    
nation governed by ,kings and ,priests  
must be always in a state1 of barbarism1
 of shameful indifference1 and of crime2
 such nations are inhabited by an       
inferior race of men1 when it may be    
presumed only a few scintillations of   
,philosophy have reached2 ,states       
governed by ,kings and ,priests show the
 sun of reason is still below the       
horizon2 if human nature is criminal in 
appearance1 it is not so in fact1 such  
cases are confounded with the errors of 
educators1 which are instilled into man 
from the moment of his birth2 if he is  
ever revengeful1 vindictive1 and        
sanguinary1 attribute it to the licensed
 villains that blot the face1 of the    
earth2 reflect upon this you pampered2  
you bloated impostors1 who riot upon the
 poor man's industry2 you hypocrites1   

who carouse upon the sweat of his brow1 
and who sack the spoil of the criminal  
your rapacity has created2 ,tyrants and 
impostors6 remember you are splendid at 
the expence of honesty1 pain1 disease   
and death2 ,give the people justice1 and
 they will be laborious2 if they are    
laborious1 they must have plenty2 and if
 they have plenty1 they will be honest2 
men are naturally innocent1 passive and 
pacific2 false information and injustice
 are the sources of violence and crime2 
remember this1 you corporate impostors  
and tyrants1 and correct your own errors
 before you brand the innocent with     
infamy4 ,cast the beams out of your own 
eyes before you shed your acrimonious   
calumny upon the virtuous and the just4