The real history of the Jews will differ greatly from the history that was recorded in the books. The Jewish people had only a very small share in building the edifice of human civilization. They did not go beyond the lower stages of civilization, which could hardly be distinguished from the stage of brutality. And when they left their desert to settle in Palestine, they found themselves facing powerful nations that had been civilized for a long time. Their situation was like the situation of all lower races, and they did not take from those higher nations except the lowest things in them. They quoted its faults and myths, so they offered to all the gods of Asia, to Astarte, to Baal, and to Molech, offerings far greater than what they offered to the god of their tribe, Jehovah, the frowning and spiteful, whom they had trusted only a little for a long time. Despite every warning that their prophets brought, they worshiped metal calves, and they placed their sons in arms reddened by the fire of Moloch, and they carried their wives to sacred prostitution on the outskirts. After they had amassed wealth according to their strong commercial instincts, they did not find among them builders and artists capable of constructing buildings and palaces, so they were forced to seek the help of their Phoenician neighbors in particular, as indicated by the Torah, and their knowledge was limited to raising livestock, cultivating the land, and trade in particular.