Temperate Revenge: Religion, Profit, and Retaliation in 1622 Jamestown

[T]hose commodities which the Indians enjoyed as much or rather more then we, shall now also be entirely possessed by us . . . Because the way of conquering them is much more easie then of civilizing them by faire meanes, for they are a rude, barbarous, and naked people, scattered in small companies, which are helps to Victorie, but hinderances to Civilitie: Besides that, a conquest may be of many, and at once; but civility is in particular, and slow, the effect of long time, and great industry.