Proselytizing schools, though supported by public grants, entirely failed.
Nudism produced an extensive proselytizing literature.
Christianity was essentially a proselytizing religion, not content to appeal simply to one class or race of people, and to be one among many faiths, but believing in the falsity or insufficiency of all others and eager to convert the whole world.
Russia, which had been their warmest patron, drove them from St Petersburg and Moscow in 1813, and from the whole empire in 1820, mainly on the plea of attempted proselytizing in the imperial army.
Rome took good care to educate the priesthood far above the status of the Orthodox priests, and continued an extensive proselytizing activity.