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In this excerpt from the Eric Hoffer's book, The True Believer, we are given insights into some of the sources of missionary  zeal. Whence comes the impulse to proselytize? Intensity of conviction is not the main factor which impels a movement to spread its faith to the four corners of the earth: 'religions of great intensity often confine themselves to condemning, destroying, or at best pitying what is not themselves." Nor is the impulse to proselytize an expression of an overabundance of pow