How large a share of vanity must spur the piety of the missionary. There is something melodramatic in landing on some Fiji island, in baptising, debauching and ultimately murdering the unsuspecting savage; then in taking his land in the name of the Most High. - Richard Birnie

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Richard Birnie: "How large a share of vanity must spur the piety of the missionary. There is something melodramatic in landing on some Fiji island, in baptising, debauching and ultimately murdering the unsuspecting savage; then in taking his land in the name of the Most High."

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Baptising	Debauching	Fiji	High
Island	Land	Landing	Large
Melodramatic	Missionary	Most	Murdering
Must	Name	Piety	Savage
Share	Something	Spur	Taking
Ultimately	Unsuspecting	Vanity

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