ABSTRACT
Smith’s most memorable, and in the long run least effective, rhetoric was an unashamed display of the privileges of social class. The men sent to India by the BMS and the LMS were simply not fit to represent the Christian religion. “If a tinker is a devout man,” he complained, “he infallibly sets off for the East.”2 Such men (he ignores women) were the “lowest of the people,” unfit to represent the Christian religion, unfit to be clergy, unfit to create a religious establishment, the only worthwhile form of religion that Smith could imagine. Furthermore, anticipating an argument that surfaces repeatedly in the following
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showed signs of mental instability. Carey himself suffered from depression, and both his wife and his first associate Dr. Thomas had to be incarcerated for mental illness.
