The Aryan Myth Quotes

“In this respect, the century which separates this Reformation from the English Revolution is the one when the priestly pre-eminence of its kings was snatched from them by a people resolved to take its destiny into its own hands. In Europe everywhere, the study of the Scriptures and popular unrest brought about new heresies and sects which the Church of Rome called judaistic; but it was only the English who identified themselves wholeheartedly with the people of Moses. The leaders of Puritanism, like Oliver Cromwell and Milton, thought of this affiliation in an allegorical Christian manner. They did not pretend that Jews were flesh and blood ancestors of the English. They merely substituted the English for the Jews so that the former became, in their turn, the people chosen by the Almighty for a special and at the same time a universal mission.”
― Léon Poliakov, The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist & Nationalistic Ideas in Europe