but in the great book of his colleague William Ward, every page of
which passed under his careful correction as well as under the more
general revision of Henry Martyn. Except for the philosophy of
Hindooism, the second edition of A View of the History, Literature,
and Mythology of the Hindoos, including a Minute Description of
their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal
Works, published in 1818 in two quarto volumes, stands unrivalled as
the best authority on the character and daily life and beliefs of
the 200,000,000 to whom Great Britain had been made a terrestrial
providence, till Christianity teaches them to govern themselves and
to become to the rest of Asia missionaries of nobler truth than that
wherewith their Buddhist fathers covered China and the farther East.

All the crimes against humanity with which the history of India
teems, down to the Mutiny and the records of our courts and
tributary states at this hour, are directly traceable to lawless
supernaturalism like that of the civilised world before the triumph
of Christianity. In nothing does England's administration of India
resemble Rome's government of its provinces in the seven centuries
from the reduction of Sicily, 240 B.C., to the fall of the Western
Empire, 476 A.D., so much as in the relation of nascent Christianity
to the pagan cults which had made society what it was. Carey and
the brotherhood stood alone in facing, in fighting with divine
weapons, in winning the first victories over the secular as well as
spiritual lawlessness which fell before Paul and his successors down
to Augustine and his City of God. The gentle and reasonable but none
the less divinely indignant father of modern missions brings against
Hindoo and Mohammedan society accusations no more railing than those
in the opening passage of the Epistle to the Romans, and he brings
these only that, following Paul, he may declare the more excellent