The book having for the greater portion of its 160 pages dealt ad seriatim with the various complaints against the Jews, and dealt with them quite successfully, turns to the positive contributions made by them to English life. The record is not unlike that to be found in other countries, and the point is made quite clear that the Jews in Great Britain as elsewhere made enormous contributions to the sciences and arts. To most people who are prompted to take a liberal view of the racial question, the history of the Jews in Britain, as outlined in this book, not only proves their community to have been and to be of value to the nation, but proves the wisdom of Oliver Cromwell when he dropped down the barriers in 1640 which had prevented the Jews from living in England. "It is reported that Cromwell said that Eogland could not live without the Jews—the fact is that England managed for some 250 years to do so very successfully during a period When the foundations of British greatness were being laid. But there cannot be the slightest doubt that the history of these people in the British Isles since the days of the Resettlement fully justified the Lord Protector in arriving at the decision he did.—R.T.P-G.
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