"Garbe’s important synthetic treatment Indien und das Christentum, published in 1914 after many more years of scholarly debate, opened by stating the author’s hopes that the volume would be helpful to missionaries in India, “for those who seek to exert influence on the religious life of the educated Hindus can, in my opinion, link (their work] with nothing better than with the elements that already have found their way from Christianity into the teaching of the Hindu sects.’””"