But, having made this full admission of the partial degradation of the Jewish race, we are not prepared to agree that this limited degeneracy is any justification of the prejudices and persecution which originated in barbarous or mediæval superstitions.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage asserts that any perceived degradation of the Jewish race does not justify historical prejudices and persecution.
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