Good examples to follow

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But first some butt kicking:

"The only hope for the Indians' conversion, [the Dutch] concluded, lay in 'subduing' them by overwhelming numbers and military power, and then showing them good examples of Christian behavior." -- Bernard Bailyn, The Barbarous Years, pp. 274-275



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