The Jewish race connects the modern populations with the early ages of the world, when the relations of the Creator with the created were more intimate than in these days, when angels visited the earth, and God himself even spoke with man.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage describes the historical and spiritual connection of the Jewish race to ancient times.
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