Original sentence: More specifically, believers in the genocide theories claim that the mindset of the highly educated and well regarded such as Nassau, is demonstrated through this quote, and supports motives or personifies the contempt which existed among the English elite for the Irish subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edited sentence: His theme is anti-poverty and not anti-Irish.In contrast, his notes of his visits to Birr in the 1850s mention his surprise and concern that the everyday lifestyle of the Irish poor had changed so little, despite the famine disaster.More specifically, believers in the genocide theories claim that the mindset of the highly educated and well regarded such as Nassau, is demonstrated through this quote, and supports motives or personifies the contempt which existed among the English élite for the Irish subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.They are still eager to subdivide and to sublet.They are still the tools of their priests, and the priests are still ignorant of the economical laws on which the welfare of the labouring classes depends.They still depend mainly on the potato.They still depend rather on the occupation of land, than on the wages of labour.They still erect for themselves the hovels in which they dwell.Though the aspect of Ireland is somewhat changed since 1852, and much since 1844, I doubt whether any great real alteration in the habits to feelings of the people has taken place