"It was in the 1880s that Max Müller ’s arch-rival at Oxford, Monier-Williams , began to move away from his previously liberal position on ‘Oriental’ religions and to become increasingly critical of the ‘limp-wristed comparative scholarship’ exemplified by Müller’s Sacred Books, a project which he denounced in 1887 as an ‘unmanly’ example of ‘jelly-fish tolerance’."