Their bias is to religion, property, and natural aristocracy: and it should be the interest of statesmen that this bias of a great race should be encouraged, and their energies and creative powers enlisted in the cause of existing society.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage suggests that statesmen should encourage the conservative biases of the Jewish race for the benefit of society.
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