[Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by George Otto Trevelyan]@TWC D-Link bookLife and Letters of Lord Macaulay CHAPTER IV 7/204
The power which you leave the Jew is the power of principal over clerk, of master over servant, of landlord over tenant.
As things now stand, a Jew may be the richest man in England.
He may possess the means of raising this party and depressing that; of making East Indian directors; of making members of Parliament.
The influence of a Jew may be of the first consequence in a war which shakes Europe to the centre. His power may come into play in assisting or thwarting the greatest plans of the greatest princes; and yet, with all this confessed, acknowledged, undenied, you would have him deprived of power! Does not wealth confer power? How are we to permit all the consequences of that wealth but one? I cannot conceive the nature of an argument that is to bear out such a position.
If we were to be called on to revert to the day when the warehouses of Jews were torn down and pillaged, the theory would be comprehensible.
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