On the contrary, they have developed in them the spirit of opposition, and have prompted them to devise all the time most dexterous means of evading the law, thereby corrupting the lower executives of the State power.

These laws affect the daily doings of every member of the Jewish population, and they extend to such spheres of life and activity in which State control is almost impossible.

They touch the domain of private contract law (the prohibition of land leases), the domain of physical liberty and the need of human locomotion (the prohibition to transgress the Pale of Settlement, or to live in villages within fifty versts of the border), the domain of daily pursuits and earnings (the prohibition of several professions), and many others.
No law will ever be able to check effectively the legal violations in these hourly acts and common relations of life.

It is impossible to attach a policeman or a public prosecutor or a justice of the peace to every Jew.

And yet it is perfectly natural that, being restricted in the most elementary rights of a subject--to take as one instance only the right of free movement--every Jew should daily attempt to violate and evade such burdensome regulations.