He laid aside the question of the national development of Jewry in the Diaspora, and became an enthusiastic preacher of the restoration of the Jewish people in Palestine.

In the midst of this propaganda the life of the talented publicist was cut short by a premature death.
[Footnote 1: The conception of a "spiritual nation" as applied to Judaism has been formulated and expounded by the author of the present volume in a number of works.

See his "Jewish History" (Jewish Publication Society, 1903) p.

29 et seq., and the translator's essay "Dubnow's Theory of Jewish Nationalism" (reprinted from the Maccabaean, 1905).

More about this theory will be found in Vol.