Project Gutenberg 2025-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 179 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron 1800 1859 Macaulay, Lord (Thomas Babington Macaulay) Macaulay, T. Babington (Thomas Babington) Macaulay, Thomas Babington Abrahams, Israel 1858 1925 Abrahams, I. (Israel) אבראהאמס, ישראל Levy, Solomon 1872 1957 Lévy, Solomon Levy, S. 16001672 Essay and speech on Jewish disabilities Second edition $aEdinburgh :$bJewish Historical Society of England, $c1910. Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Essay and speech on Jewish disabilities by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay" is a collection of political writing and oratory from the early to mid-19th century, focusing on issues of civil rights and religious equality. The book is a historical account comprised of Macaulay’s influential essay and a key speech delivered in the British Parliament, both arguing for the removal of political and civil restrictions placed upon Jews in England. The surrounding commentary and editorial notes also situate these works in their social and political context, exemplifying the debates around Jewish emancipation during the Victorian era. The main topic centers on advocacy for the full civic inclusion of Jews, challenging the legal and cultural prejudices that prevented their participation in public life. The main content of the book consists of Macaulay’s essay, originally published in the Edinburgh Review, and his 1833 parliamentary speech, both of which systematically dismantle the arguments used to justify excluding Jews from public office. Macaulay addresses common objections—such as claims about the Christian nature of the constitution, supposed lack of patriotism among Jews, biblical prophecy, and accusations of social separation—showing them to be baseless and unjust. He emphasizes that civil disabilities are not only unfair but also counterproductive, as they foster exactly the isolation and resentment they are supposed to prevent. Through historical examples and moral reasoning, Macaulay makes a powerful case that the only just grounds for excluding someone from political power are inability or unfitness, not religious difference, and concludes by advocating for equal civil rights as both a principle of justice and a Christian duty. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/essayspeechonjew00macauoft/page/n5/mode/2up 20200512034426macaulay 1910 GB Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Jews -- Great Britain DS Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: History - British Category: Religion/Spirituality Category: Politics 125836 2025-06-30T05:26:38.799550 text/html 99992 2025-04-16T10:52:11 text/html 447256 2025-06-30T05:26:42.267543 application/epub+zip 445631 2025-06-30T05:26:39.809536 application/epub+zip 235827 2025-06-30T05:26:39.228558 application/epub+zip 902324 2025-06-30T05:26:44.115580 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 888594 2025-06-30T05:26:41.811607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 105247 2025-06-30T05:26:38.573539 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 85179 2025-04-16T10:52:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17981 2025-06-30T05:26:44.256538 application/rdf+xml 11936 2025-06-30T05:26:39.427609 image/jpeg 1692 2025-06-30T05:26:39.326536 image/jpeg 667695 2025-06-30T05:26:38.820539 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia