This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... FOREWORD The following chapters, now brought together with many revisions and with the addition of much new material, were first printed in Asia. The theme was developed in a lecture which the author was invited to deliver before the members of the American Asiatic Association on the subject of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... FOREWORD The following chapters, now brought together with many revisions and with the addition of much new material, were first printed in Asia. The theme was developed in a lecture which the author was invited to deliver before the members of the American Asiatic Association on the subject of Foreign Missions and World-Wide Democracy. The fact that the material thus collected and presented was acceptable to Asia and to the American Asiatic Association is striking evidence of the interest and favor which the subject has won for itself. It is only within recent years that a secular magazine and an association which has no relation whatever to religious propaganda would have found the facts with reference to foreign missions worthy of so much consideration. It must also be evident that the point of view of the author is detached and impartial, rather than either partisan or critical. The facts were gathered in the course of two extensive tours through Japan, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, and India. They are the observations of a tourist who merely took the trouble to turn aside from the usual routes of travel to make investigations at first hand. A large place has been given to the narration of incidents and stories, because each bit of evidence is cumulative rather than conclusive. It has been the repeated impact of these situations described here at length which has produced the convictions out of which these chapters are written. The photographs from which the book is illustrated were, with two exceptions, taken by the author. A complete list of acknowledgments is impossible. The author is grateful to a host of friendly people throughout the countries visited for their never-failing hospitality and their sympathetic understanding...
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