Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review 'If God has no need of human learning!' retorted South on the Puritans of his day, still less has he need of human ignorance: and too truly has this been seen in much of the history of the attempts to Christianize the East. A sanguine spirit has gone forth thither, expecting ends without means - hailing the most equivocal symptoms as infallible signs of conversion - prompting replies to the listless heathen, and then recording those parrot-words as spontaneous tokens of grace. To every sentence which one of the missionaries addressed to a man before him, covered with cow-dung, he received as an answer, 'Nisam! (most certain!) pronounced with great gravity, and accompanied by a sober nod of the head. 'I was much cheered, says the worthy teacher, by his approving so cordially the doctrines of salvation: - and if here the questions had ended, this man would have had as good right to be enrolled amongst the lists of converted heathens as many more, but, unluckily, it was further asked, 'How old are you?' 'How long have you been Sunyasee? - to which he replied, with the same emphasis as before, 'Nisam! Nisam!' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.