The people of God coöperate with atheists; the most skilful accumulators of property ally themselves with communists; the peculiar and chosen race touch the hand of all the scum and low castes of Europe!
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage describes the perceived paradoxical alliances formed by the Jewish people as a consequence of persecution.
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