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Brundage & Cosgrove 2014, p. 99: "For Jews Freeman expressed a signal disdain, particularly Conservative politician Benjamin Disraeli, to whom he sometimes referred to as the 'dirty Jew'. This brand of anti-Semitism showed how easily the use of race as an explanatory category might degnerate into abuse." Brundage, Anthony; Cosgrove, Richard A. (2014). British Historians and National Identity: From Hume to Churchill. Pickering & Chatto. ISBN978-1-84893-539-6.
The aphorism is often misattributed to his contemporary, J. R. Seeley: see Hesketh 2014, pp. 105–108 Hesketh, Ian (2014). "History is Past Politics, and Politics Present History': Who Said It?". Notes and Queries. 61: 105–108. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjt244.