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] maiden speech, delivered in the House of Commons in 1830, was in favour of Grant's Bill for the Removal of Jewish Disabilities. 'On every principle of moral obligation', he said, 'the Jew has a right to political power.' His famous essay on the 'Civil Disabilities of the Jews' appeared in the Edinburgh Review of January 1831. His argument against the idea that Jewish Nationalism unfits the Jews for complete civil rights outside Palestine is worth quoting.

Nearly thirty years elapsed before Jewish emancipation in England was accomplished, but during that period Macaulay's essay undoubtedly played a great part in converting public opinion. In 1847 the Quarterly Review published an article setting forth the case against the Jewish claim, but the whole argument is directed towards rebutting that of the essay. The