Intolerence, class prejudice and race hatred have taken many forms but in none have these shown such persistence and bitterness as toward the Jew. In no country, also, have these borne more bitter fruit toward that race than in Spain.
Cano, for instance, a Spanish painter, was famous for his magnanimity, but toward the Jew he exhibited a hatred which was almost demented in its blind relentlessness. If his clothes brushed a Jew he would immediately discard them, and his wily servant made a rich harvest by suggesting that during his walk abroad he had unknown to himself, rubbed against one of the hated race.Once when a Jewish peddler was discovered by him in his house he dismissed his housekeeper as a "quarantine precaution," repaved the flooring where the Jew had stood and burned the boots with which he had kicked him out
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