We are in accord on that Roger. The context I made my original remark from was Richard's statement that "The anti-Semitism is worst--because more than just tepid modishness--in After Strange Gods, the lecture series he later tried to keep out of print", and this from VQR:
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"However, the lectures, gathered in Spring 1934 as the slim volume After Strange Gods, have gained most of their notorious reputation, because they contain some of the strongest evidence of Eliot’s intolerance for non-Christian religions and his blatant anti-Semitism. At one point, he declared that, “The population should be homogeneous; where two or more cultures exist in the same place they are likely either to be fiercely self-conscious or both to become adulterate. What is still more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.”
-- http://www.vqronline.org/vault/2004/...essed-lecture/
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The wording and tenor of these two observations led me to expect that the document contained a great number of anti-semitic remarks when in fact it contains (as far as I've found so far) just one -- which one certainly
does as you say demonstrate anti-semitism. Very obviously I'm NOT saying that "anti-semitism is excused merely for not seething".