Germany has been a boiling pot of envy for a long time. Their language has multiple words for the various forms of it, and they have customs such as mounting "envy heads" over their doorways to scare it away. Envy leads to warfare, which leads to brilliance increasing in concentration in the surviving population.
Interesting... (though particularly over-focused on ‘modern’ Jewish [scientific, civic] history) but not the thrust of the post. Point taken. Let me reword the title:
G-d’s Torah’s Impact on a Savage World.