This is perfectly natural and intelligible....
About ninety per cent of the whole Jewish population form a mass of people that are entirely unprovided for, and come near being a proletariat--a mass that lives from hand to mouth, amidst poverty, and most oppressive sanitary and general conditions.

This very proletariat is occasionally the target of tumultuous popular uprisings.

The Jewish mass lives in fear of pogroms and in fear of violence.

It looks with envy upon the Jews of the adjacent governments of the Kingdom of Poland, who are almost entirely emancipated, though living under the jurisdiction of the same State.
[1] The law itself places the Jews in the category of "alien races," on the same level with the Samoyeds and pagans.

[2] In a word the abnormal condition of the present position of the Jews in Russia is evidenced by the instability and vagueness of their juridic rights.
[Footnote 1: The law of 1862 conferred upon the Jews of "the Kingdom of Poland," i.e., of Russian Poland, the right of unrestricted residence throughout the Kingdom, including the villages (see p.
181).