ABSTRACT
But forty years afford a fair opportunity of observing what life and potentiality there may be in the Jargest and most forcible form of dissent, unimpeded for the greater part of that time by any rival or anta.gonist,
and unfettered by any open connection with the State. If the American missionaries have not succeeded in aU that they have attempted, or filled the large programme they had sketched, it is nevertheless no small work which they have accomplished in the Hawaiian Archipelago. In an age of 'immeasurable desires and weak volitions' failure and incompleteness are seen around us at every step: and it is with no unfriendly hand that we trace the proceedings of the missionaries, and endeavour to form some estimate of the ultimate effects and capabilities of religion as taught by them and exemplified in their conduct.
