At the tenth century it reached its term.

Modern missions, whether those of Jesuits or Protestants, have not converted whole nations and races, but only individuals here and there.

The reason of this check, probably, is, that Christians have repeated the mistakes of the Jews and Mohammedans.

They have sought to make proselytes to an outward system of worship and ritual, or to make subjects to a _dogma_; but not to make converts to an idea and a life.

When the Christian missionaries shall go and say to the Hindoos or the Buddhists: "You are already on your way toward God,--your religion came from him, and was inspired by his Spirit; now he sends you something more and higher by his Son, who does not come to destroy but to fulfil, not to take away any good thing you have, but to add to it something better," then we shall see the process of conversion, checked in the ninth and tenth, centuries, reinaugurated.
Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, all teaching the strict unity of God, have all aimed at becoming universal.