Unsympathetic as the Jews may be to the Russian masses, it is impossible not to agree with this axiomatic truth.
Turning now to the execution of its task, the High Commission has up to the present been able to carry out but a very small part of the program indicated.

It was tied down by that gradation and cautiousness which it considers an indispensable condition for every improvement in the status of the Jews....

The principal task of the legislation, as far as it affects the Jews, must consist in uniting them as closely as possible with the general Christian population.
It is not advisable to frame a new legislation in the form of a special "Statute" or "Regulation," since such a course would be fundamentally subversive of the efforts of the Government to remove Jewish exclusiveness.

_The system of repressive and discriminating measures must give way to a graduated system of emancipatory and equalizing laws_.

The greatest possible _cautiousness_ and _gradation_ are the principles to be observed in the solution of the Jewish question.
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