We hesitate not to say that there is no race at this present, and following in this only the example of a long period, that so much delights, and fascinates, and elevates, and ennobles Europe, as the Jewish.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage declares the profound positive influence and contribution of the Jewish race to European culture and society.
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