WE CANNOT CHANGE THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD. IT IS THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD ALONE THAT CHANGES THE WORLD: AND US.
Adherents to so many of our world’s faiths see part of their duty as being the proselytising of their faith. Such was the underlying motivation underpinning all the great missionary drives. To teach the faith, to proclaim the faith, to bring new adherents into the faith, was seen as a fundamental duty by so many. Certainly, it was believed by such missionaries that those they hoped to convert would languish spiritually, and indeed would be deprived of eternal salvation unless they were brought into the faith.