Excerpt from Some Leading Ideas of Hinduism: Being the Thirty-Second Fernley Lecture Delivered in Manchester, August, 1902 Vllwill make demand on their best intelligence and their most patient enthusiasm. Missionary success in the West - in West Africa and the West Indies - was swift and ex citing; but it is afar cry from there to India. It is a change from simplicity to complexity, from animalism and the lower forms of emotionalism to the environment of the subtlest forms of philosophy, from the crudest and most fluid social organisation to the most elaborate and the most rigid. Changed conditions require changed methods. The people of India must not be expected in an hour to shed the assumptions of a lifetime inherited from centuries, as a snake sheds its skin. Casual, rapid, emotional work can afford no hope of wide and worthy success among the Hindus. Head and heart both are required for the great enterprise in India, and the former as much as the latter. It will be a great gain when the churches of this land have made this plain to themselves, and planned their campaign suitably to the special character of their enterprise. I do not claim any originality for this volume. I cannot trace all my obligations. The reading of many years has entered into me, and found confirmation and illustration in long intercourse among the people of India. I would here make acknowledgment of much indebtedness which I am unable more particularly to specify. I have had the great advantage of reading two recent volumes by brother missionaries in South India, and to these I have again and again been indebted. One is a small volume. 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.