Let us beware how we foster the spirit of caste. Charles Darwin pronounced the Patagonians (South end of Argentina and Chile) the missing link between man and the monkey, and thought that not even the lever of Christian missions could uplift them…
But…

Darwin thought the Fuegian peoples to be one of the links between man and monkey, and thought they could never be civilized. He later confessed he was wrong. (Picture modified slightly for modesty's sake.)

Admiral Sulivan, who lived on the Falkland Islands for a time, attended the annual meeting of the South American Missionary Society in 1881. While there, he stated that he had informed Darwin of the great changes that had taken place in his Patagonian “human monkeys”: of kindness shown to shipwrecked crews by the converted natives, and how chicken houses remained unlocked, without even the theft of an egg. He stated that in reply, Darwin had candidly confessed: “I could not have believed that all the missionaries in the world could ever have made the Fuegians honest.”
So remarkable is the testimony of this great naturalist—who was, however, no “supernaturalist,”—that with his oft-quoted testimony we close this brief sketch. He had said after his visit to Patagonia, “Nothing can be done by means of mission work; all the pains bestowed on the natives will be thrown away; they never can be civilized.” This was Darwin’s opinion until proofs of the facts confronted him. Then he candidly admitted he was wrong, and added: “I had always thought that the civilization of the Japanese is the most wonderful thing in history; but I am now convinced that what the missionaries have done in Tierra del Fuego, in civilizing the natives, is at least as wonderful.” From that time, Darwin himself regularly donated to the mission society’s funds.
-Taken from the book The New Acts of the Apostles by A.T. Pierson

Life that is aimless is both restless and forceless. How many a trumpet hangs on the walls of society, useless, voiceless and rusty! It has no luster and gives forth no music, and is losing the power to emit sound. What an hour of redemption, when some brave warrior lays hands on the long unused instrument, puts it to his lips and blows a bugle blast!
Young men—you whose life hangs idle, aimless, mute, while the right is battling with the wrong, would to God that some hero-spirit might set you quivering and resounding with the clarion-peal of a holy purpose to serve God and man! No work is so wearisome as doing nothing, and no self-sacrifice is so costly as self-indulgence. Could you wear the “magic skin” which makes sure the gratification of every selfish whim, it would shrink with every new carnal pleasure and so at last crush out all true life.
A.T. Pierson

My latest book is finally finished enough to post it online. It needs another edit to take out some typos, but you can download a pdf of The Birth, Life, and Death of the Bohemian Revival, or read it in html online. At present, I do not have all the html pages built, but hope to within the next week or so.
The pdf is 3.5mb, and set up so that it can be printed out in a booklet form, although it is too large to neatly make a booklet.
Here is the back cover.

Every movement, even though God begins it, suffers decline and corruption with time, because of the enemy’s wickedness. Now that is happening to the Unity of Brothers. Those looking on can see, by comparing the Unity to what it used to be, that what began in the Spirit is ending in the flesh. This is happening because the brothers wanted to avoid persecution and win large numbers of people into the church who were unwilling to make the sacrifices formerly demanded for entry into the brotherhood.

The above words were written around 500 years ago, by a member of the Bohemian brotherhood known as “The Unity of brothers”.

Not much has changed, has it?  That is because people are still people, and the flesh is still flesh- deceitful.

I am almost finished with the book I have been writing on the Bohemian revival.  Lord willing it will be available in a couple weeks.