I learnt that neither the Pope, nor the Cardinals, nor the Bishops, nor the least of the Prelates, could set foot on this accursed ground without contracting a moral stain--the custom of Rome forbids it: and I thought of those Indian Pariahs whom a Brahmin cannot touch without losing caste.

I learnt that the lowest places in the lowest of the public offices were inaccessible to Jews, neither more nor less than they would be to animals.

A child of Israel might as well apply for the place of a copying-clerk at Rome as one of the giraffes in the Jardin des Plantes for the post of a Sous-Prefet.

I ascertained that none of them are or can be landowners, a fact which satisfies me that Pius IX.

has not yet come quite to regard them as men.