The Jews have never been so degraded as the Greeks were throughout the Levant before the emancipation, and the degradation of the Greeks was produced by a period of persecution which, both in amount and suffering, cannot compare with that which has been endured by the children of Israel.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage compares the historical degradation and persecution experienced by Jewish people with that of the Greeks.
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