The transformation of the Rabbinate through the establishment of rabbinical seminaries, the appointment of graduates from German universities as rabbis, and the formation of consistories after the pattern of Western Europe.
2.

The reform of school education through the opening of secular schools after the model of Odessa and Riga and the training of new teachers from among the Maskilim.
3.

The struggle with the fiends of obscurantism, who stifle every endeavor for popular enlightenment.
4.

The improvement of Jewish economic life by intensifying agricultural colonization, the establishment of technical and arts and crafts schools, and similar measures.
Several years later the authors of this circular had reason to share Lilienthal's disillusionment over the "benevolent intentions" of the Government.

This, however, was not strong enough to uproot the original sin of the Haskalah: its constant readiness to lean for support upon "enlightened absolutism." The despotism of the orthodox and the intolerance of the unenlightened masses forced the handful of Maskilim to fall back upon those who in the eyes of the Jewish populace were the source of its sorrow and tears.