Excerpt from Christianity and Civilization in the South Pacific: The Influence of Missionaries Upon European Expansion in the Pacific During the Nineteenth Century (the Robert Herbert Memorial Prize Essay, 1920)The subject of this essay is so wide that the writer has found himself compelled to limit the field of his inquiry in two directions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.