This underlying unity gave more harmony to Jewish literature than is possessed by many literatures more distinctively national.

The maxim, "Righteousness delivers from death," applies to books as well as to men.

A literature whose consistent theme is Righteousness is immortal.

On the very day on which Jerusalem fell, this theory of the interconnection between literature and life became the fixed principle of Jewish thought, and it ceased to hold undisputed sway only in the age of Mendelssohn.

It was in the "Vineyard" of Jamnia that the theory received its firm foundation.