Spiritual Mission Quotes
Strachey brought a critical judgment toward his historical material and combined it with an eloquent, acidic pen. In this case he was describing Pinyin Hong Xiuquan, 1814-1864, a radical revolutionist who claimed to be the son of God and the younger brother of Jesus whose movement caused over 20 million deaths. See {38318}.
The goods to which he was referring were those that had been confiscated from all the town’s Lutherans and Roman Catholics who had been ethnically cleansed in a day. See {613804} and {613869}. He soon moved to communal ownership of all property. See {613869}.