There is no doubt that in certain lines of endeavor the Jews are extremely useful.

This was already realized by Catherine, who admitted them to the South-Russian coast in order to introduce commercial activities and bring life into the country,....

The peculiar nature of their commerce and credit is useful to the State, because they connect the remotest regions by commercial ties and are satisfied with considerably smaller profits than are the Christian merchants....
We must not, first of all, engage in too comprehensive plans of reform and imagine that the Jewish question can be considered in all its aspects and solved at one stroke....

Gradation and cautiousness must above all become the guiding principles of the future activity of the legislator.
The repressive policy, taken by itself, has been and will always be the first and main source of the clannishness of the Jews and their aloofness from Russian life....

The prohibitive laws have not improved the Jews.