ABSTRACT
The Protestant missionary enterprise which accompanied the upsurge of European industrialization was complex in its origins, and various in its effects. As the habituation of Africans to European culture grew through education and social contact with rapidly increasing numbers of European immigrants, it became apparent to them that they could choose what they wanted from the vast complexity of that culture. African culture, however, embodied wide use and great interest in respect of curative substances which corresponded in effect to the medicines to European physicians. A number of those who had adopted a good deal of the European culture of the mission stations accompanied missionaries who were going home on furlough. To the pioneers of Protestant missions it would have been inconceivable that there should be a fear of freedom, and they did not recognize how far this was responsible for such success as they had in imposing godly discipline.
