From Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
The modern missionary, with his palm-leaf hat and his umbrella, has become rather a figure of fun.
He is chaffed among men of the world for the ease with which he can be eaten by cannibals and the narrow bigotry which makes him regard the cannibal culture as lower than his own.
Perhaps the best part of the joke is that the men of the world do not see the joke is against themselves.
It is rather ridiculous to ask a man just about to be boiled in a pot and eaten, at a purely religious feast, why he does not regard all religions as equally friendly and fraternal.
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