 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Modern missionaries are shocked by nudity, even where it has been the custom from time immemorial. By the help of scientific weapons of war this view has been caused to prevail throughout Africa and the South Sea islands. Only the Japanese found means of resisting this argument: when, in the sixteenth century, the Spaniards sent them missionaries and fire-arms, they at first admitted both, but when they had learnt to make fire-arms they decided to tolerate no more missionaries.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 3
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