that the colonists must reduce "the savage Natives by gentle and just manners to the Love of Civil Societie and Christian Religion." A recurring theme in colonial charters, the 1606 First Virginia Charter similarly mentions the "propagating of Christian religion to such people, as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages, living in those parts, to human civility, and to a settled and quiet government".

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