MAX See also:

• SIMON, ABRAHAM (1622-1692)
• SIMON, JULES FRANCOIS (1814–1896)
• SIMON, RICHARD (1638–1712)
• SIMON, SIR JOHN (1816–1904)
• SIMON, THOMAS (c. 1623-1665)

SIMON See also:

• MAX SIMON NORDAU (1849- )

NORDAU (1849- )  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German author and philosopher, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of Jewish parents at See also:

• BUDAPEST

Budapest on the 29th of See also:

• JULY

July 1849 . He studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and travelled widely through See also:

• EUROPE

Europe until 1878, when he settled down as a practitioner in his native See also:

• TOWN

town . In 188o he removed to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and in addition to his professional See also:

• WORK

work took up the study of See also:

• ART

art, literature and social questions . His investigations were marked by a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical accuracy which endeavoured to weigh data and deduce results with a fearless disregard of conventional ideas . In his Entartung he applied the theory of See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical degeneration to the intellectual See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of civilized See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and endeavoured to show that in art, literature and social See also:

• EVOLUTION

evolution there is decadence and See also:

• HYSTERIA

hysteria; confused aesthetic theory, See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism in thought, so-called " See also:

• REALISM (from Low Lat. realis, appertaining to res, things, as opposed to ideas and imaginations)

realism " in art, all alike indicate the vain spasmodic struggling of an effete See also:

• CIVILIZATION

civilization . In See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die konventionellen Lugen der Kulturmenschheit (1884), the same destructive method is applied to politics and to social See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . Yet See also:

• NORDAU, MAX SIMON (1849- )

Nordau was not a pessimist . In the Paradoxes psychologiques (1885) he expressed his profound and .reasoned conviction that the " Degeneration " of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time was only temporary . This optimism was seen in his enthusiastic support of Dr See also:

• HERZL, THEODOR (1860-1904)

Herzl's Zionist .See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement . In connexion with the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government's offer of See also:

• LAND

land for a Jewish See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement in See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, there was a fundamental difference of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion among the various Jewish See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies . Herzl and Nordau were accused of giving up the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of returning to See also:

• PALESTINE

Palestine, and substituting the See also:

• AFRICAN

African See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme . This idea provoked See also:

• GREAT

great hostility, and at a Zionist See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

Ball in Paris (19th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1903) a See also:

• JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew named Louban See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

Chain Selik fired two shots at Nordau unsuccessfully .

The See also:

• OUTRAGE (through O. Fr. ultrage, oltrage, oultrage, from Lat. ultra, beyond, exceeding, cf. Ital. oltraggio; the meaning has been influenced by connexion with " rage," anger)

outrage See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew from Herzl a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter (The Times, 22nd of December) which clearly set forth the view held by himself and Nordau as to the ultimate destiny of the Zionist Movement . WoRxs.—Novels and Stories: Seifenblasen, Federzeichnungen and Geschichten (1879); Die Krankheit See also:

• DES

des Jahrhunderts (1889),_ Gefullskomodie (1892); Die Drohnenschlacht (1897); Morganatisch Besides the See also:

• WORKS

works noticed above, see the accounts of See also:

• NORDEN
• NORDEN, JOHN (1548-1625?)

Norden by (1904) . Dramas: Die neuen Journalisten (in collaboration with F . See also:

• GROSS

Gross, 188o) ; Der Krieg der Millionen (1882) ; Das Recht zu lieben (2nd ed., 1894); Die Kugel (1894); and Doktor Kohn (1898) . He published also Vom Kreml zur See also:

• ALHAMBRA, THE

Alhambra (188o), an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his travels, and three works descriptive of Paris and the Parisians—Pariser Studien aus dem wahren Milliardenlande (1878) ; Paris unter der dritten Republik (1881); Ausgewahlte Pariser Briefe (1887); two further volumes of See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism, Zeitgenossische Franzosen, literatureschichtliche essays (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1901); and Von Kunst and Kiinstlern See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1905) .