Excerpt from West and East: The Expansion of Christendom and the Naturalization of Christianity in the Orient in the Xixth Century, Being the Dale Lectures, Oxford, 1913 The publisher has kindly permitted me to state in briefest fashion some of the principles to the elaboration of which this book is devoted in the introduction to a new work, The Spread of Christianity in the Modern Era, the Chicago University Press, 1919. That book deals with the history of the movement of which this book has sought to set forth the ruling ideas. It is hoped that the two books may supplement the one the other. 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.