CASTE AND CHRISTIANITY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—As you could not afford space to discuss "Caste and Christianity" at great length, I trust you will allow me to refer Mr. Dyson, and those interested in the subject, to the chapter on Caste, in the first volume of my "Experiences of a Planter," —a book that has been long out of print. In connection with the subject, I quoted Bishop Heher's letter on Caste, and an account of the wise action of the German missionaries, and, in short, discussed the whole subject at great length. Bishop Heber and the German missionaries, I may here mention, adopted a wise toleration of Caste, which is really of very great
value in a variety of ways, and because it acts as a temperance society as regards large numbers of the people.—I am, Sir, dm,
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