|
|
Article: Dr. Arnold, Matthew Arnold, and the Jews.
- Article from:
- Judaism
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 American Jewish Congress. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Perhaps the Reverend Dr Arnold, Head Master of Rugby School near Birmingham, would be a proper person. He is one of the most enlightened and liberal of our clergy....
John Stuart Mill, letter of 6 December 1831 (1)
ON APRIL 5, 1830, IN HIS MAIDEN SPEECH TO THE HOUSE of Commons, Thomas Macaulay spoke eloquently in favor of Robert Grant's bill for the Removal of Jewish Disabilities. Alluding to but not actually naming, Nathan Rothschild (who had financed the Allied armies ranged against Napoleon), Macaulay noted that "as things now stand, a Jew may be the richest man in England.... The influence of a Jew may be of the first consequences in a war which ...