(Mark Twain: Concerning The Jews, Harper’s Magazine, March, 1898)
ages of compulsory disuse of his hands have atrophied them, and he never uses them now.
That was Mark Twain was speaking about the European Jews who never used their hands to do anything that requires labor. The European Jews use their hands to hold a pen or to put food into their mouths but most certainly, they knew nothing about farming.
